Trees Make Change

Some plantings are fun 🌵🌱🌳, but even the tough ones are a gift! 🎁
Thank you Trees Matter and City of Glendale, Arizona - Government for organizing. The volunteers here were dedicated and got 60 more trees in the ground!

A fantastic work day out in the field thanks to https://www.facebook.com/groups/851513801855503 Grant Park Community Garden Xavier's Butterfly Garden for hosting the Niagra Bottling Company volunteer team and letting me teach Aldo and Matt about tree training! 🪾🌳💚

We did a nice job with this run-off basin and pollinator garden over the weekend at the Reed Park 100-tree planting thanks to Watershed Management group , Trees Matter for organizing and The Nature Conservancy in Arizona for funding.

Great job everyone, especially the volunteers. I can't wait to see this park in a couple of years!

Another rainy day forecast. Please be extra careful in your commutes!

3 y.o. Texas Ebony.

No pruning or supplemental watering in over one year! It has grown so well that it's actually visible over the wall now.

This is what early-care can do for establishing healthy trees!

I was so pleased to be a part of this unique in-person learning session. Thank you Arizona Sustainability Alliance for all you do to put these events in place!

🌳✨ Highlights from the Urban Forest Roundtable! Over 70 attendees—including certified arborists earning CEUs—joined us for a day full of learning, networking, and collaboration.Big thanks to our incredible partner @americanforests and our featured speakers.We also introduced the upcoming Municipality Tree Handbook, launching this August, along with new Urban Forest Roundtable resources coming to the website soon!We’re so grateful to everyone who showed up to grow our collective impact. 🌱 #UrbanForestryPHX #SustainablePHX #TreeStewards #GreenInfrastructure #ClimateActionPHX

I am super excited to be at the Home and Landscape show on behalf of Arizona Community Tree Council!
Let's get learning about green spaces!

It's hard to imagine what this one community event would lead to personally and professionally. Seven years gone by!

The biggest shout-out to Gloria Gonzalez and Gade for being the powerhouses to see our plan through.

A fitting end to this planting season:

Phoenix Heroes: Giving Trees A Voice, Film Premiere Get a firsthand view of the wonderful achievements during the first year of the City of Phoenix's Community Canopy Grant in 2024!

Agroforestry class deciding on how to plant our 1/16th of an acre 'tropical food forest" next week.

Spring events in Glendale:
Xeriscaping by Watershed Management Group;
Desert Tree care April 21 by certified arborist from Elgin Nursery, etc.