What We Do

 

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Tree Planting

Are you looking to reforest a plot of land, plant trees in your neighborhood, school, local park, or an abandoned lot? Our goal is to plant trees that will remain in the ground indefinitely. We work within your community to pull together a team of people from local schools, community groups, organizations, municipalities, and businesses to make your tree planting a success. By using local resources and community members, we make tree planting affordable. We can provide any number of the offerings before, during and after the planting. We will tailor our services to meet your needs. Contact Us today to see how we can help you make your tree planting a success!

Preparations for Planting Day

  • Site assessments to help you know how best to prepare the site for planting.
  • Volunteer recruitment for planting day.
  • Guidance on finding local sponsors to help cover some of the costs, through in-kind donations and cash contributions.
  • Planting placement plan.
  • Stage plantings
    • Use flags to ID where trees will be planted where.
    • Stage actual trees if using container or ball and burlap trees

Onsite on Planting Day

  • Tree planting demonstration
  • Safety Review
  • Provide tools
  • Provide trees
  • Mulch
  • Food, water, snacks
  • First Aid kit

Post Planting Day

  • Debrief planting day.
  • Provide post planting maintenance plan.
  • Post planting site visit
    • Assess the success rate of the planting.
    • Provide guidance on how to problem solve any post planting site maintenance issues..

Tree Giveaway

Held annually in North Carolina. By giving away tree seedlings, we make it easy for anyone to plant their own trees to help combat climate change.

We give out native North Carolina bare root tree seedlings. Along with the tree seedling you will get information about the tree, how to plant and care for it.

Click here if you want to partner with us to hold a tree giveaway in your community.

Click here to see when and where our next tree giveaway event will take place in North Carolina.

Environmental Education

We take a hands on approach to teaching and learning. Whenever possible we like to get students, children and adults, out in nature. We tailor our curriculum to meet your needs and interests.

Some of our hands-on activities include tree planting, tree seed gathering, acting out the life cycle of a tree. Click here to check out our online Nature-Connected Education Resources.

To contact us click here if you want us to come teach Environmental Education in your community.

Arbor Day Festival

A TREE CAN. . .
Provide Oxygen. Capture Pollution. Create Beauty.

Discover diverse ways trees help each and everyone of us at our Arbor Day Festival. The festival will give people direct experience in understanding the benefits of trees and how to sustain our natural environment. A fun-filled festival with tree giveaways, crafts, tree trivia, live music, food trucks, tree care and rain barrel demonstrations and other fantastic creative expressions that support trees and the natural environment. Get the details on the festival here. This event is a call to celebrate trees and create a sense of community purpose toward the preservation and restoration of the natural environment.

Rain Barrel Workshops

A few times a year, in Raleigh, North Carolina, we hold rain barrel making workshops. Participants make and take to start their own water conservation program with a 55 gallon fully functional rain barrel with installation instructions and flexible downspout attachment. We supply the barrels, parts and all tools necessary to make the rain barrel.

Click here if you want to partner with us to hold a rain barrel workshop in your community. (Delivery of barrels limits our range of workshop locations in North Carolina. Contact us to see if we can work out the barrel delivery logistics.)

Click here to see when and where our next rain barrel event will take place.

Native Tree Seed Collection

A new program, we are excited to partner with Leaf & Limb on Project Pando, a volunteer-operated native tree farm.  A major goal of Project Pando is to collect 100K native tree seeds this year. We Plant it Forward is recruiting volunteers to collect seeds for Project Pando to cultivate this spring.  This is a great project for families with school aged children, budding environmentalists, environmental science class K-12, nature seekers and anyone who wants to work to preserve and restore our natural environment.

Click here to partner with us to collect native tree seeds in your community. We will give you instructions and guidance on how to collect and prepare tree seeds and where drop off locations are in the Raleigh/Durham area.

Click here to see when and where our next work day at Project Pando tree farm will take place.

Our tree seed collection partners