Here at Casey Trees, there’s little that tickles our fancy more than an empty tree yard waiting for it’s first delivery of the season. Between tomorrow and mid-April, 652 trees will come through our tree yard before being planted all over the District. The trees will be planted in Community Tree Plantings or as RiverSmart Homes in neighborhoods, schools [...]
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Last Chance to Vote for Casey Trees
Tomorrow is your last chance to vote for Casey Trees as the Best Place to Volunteer AND Best Non-Profit in the Washington City Paper’s 2012 Readers’ Poll. If you haven’t voted yet, there’s no better time than right now! Go ahead — we’ll wait. Great! Now that you’ve voted, pass the message along to [...]
Read full postCasey Trees, GW Contribute to ABA’s One Million Trees Campaign
On Friday, February 24th, students from the George Washington Law School’s Environmental Law Association (ELA) partnered with Casey Trees to plant 23 trees on GW’s Foggy Bottom campus. This is the first time that the GW ELA has contributed to the One Million Trees Project, a nationwide effort led by the American Bar Association to [...]
Read full postWhat It Could Be: 2100 MLK Ave. SE
The streetscapes of D.C. could bring beauty and benefits to our neighborhoods if only their potential was realized. The Planning & Design department looks at some of the rough patches and then demonstrates “What It Could Be” if it incorporated bioretention that promoted the growth of large shade trees. The most recent stretch of street [...]
Read full postSpotlight: Jim Sherald brings years of horticultural expertise to Board of Directors
When Jim Sherald retired in 2010 from the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), he knew he wanted to stay in the horticulture field, even if it was in a different capacity. Enter Casey Trees, which Sherald worked with in the early days of the organization’s history as an advisory board member. Last year, Sherald became [...]
Read full postWhat an Animal!
A new batch of tree planters will be earning their Citizen Forester stripes with our first event of the Community Tree Planting (CTP) spring season, a Tree Planting Workshop at the National Zoo on March 3. All the tree planting basics will be covered, including selecting and preparing a tree planting site, choosing the appropriate species and [...]
Read full postExploring my roots with Casey Trees
Contributing writer — Reed Young, Tree Planting High School Intern Every February, my school suspends classes and every student goes into the world and completes a two-week internship. My goal for my internships has been to develop a better understanding of my city. For the past couple years, I have worked in the D.C. public schools, but [...]
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