With the spring coming to a close, it’s time to reflect on the work done this planting season…by our youngest planters! The school community tree planting season has been a big success, and as you may remember from our update earlier this spring, our work has been driven by a singular goal – to expand [...]
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School CTP Recap
With October gone and November soon rolling into December, it’s time to recap this year’s community tree plantings, specifically those at our local schools. We brought 66 trees to 219 students at 10 different schools this season – following up with a variety of schools that we had previously planted at once before, but also [...]
Read full postCasey Trees, TD Bank and ACTrees Team Up for TD Tree Days
What started out as a cloudy morning turned into a gorgeous day for volunteers from TD Bank, Alliance for Community Trees (ACTrees) and Casey Trees last week. On Wednesday, October 24th the three groups came together for an incredible event – part of the national TD Tree Days – adding 36 trees to Takoma Recreation [...]
Read full postCasey Trees and CoStar Group Team up for Fall Planting Fun
After a break last weekend, Casey Trees was back at it again this Saturday planting 22 trees at the Takoma Recreation Center in Ward 4. The sunny skies were the perfect backdrop for an event that was all the more special thanks to our sponsor, CoStar Group, who came out in full force to help [...]
Read full postNational Child Research Center Preschool: Planting Recap
This morning marked an unusual, but incredibly fun, event for us – we joined 21 preschoolers and 17 parents and volunteers at the National Child Research Center Preschool for a school planting! It was our second planting with the group – the first was actually this past spring, where were planted 5 trees throughout their [...]
Read full postNational Zoo: Citizen Forester Workshop Recap
This past weekend (October 6th to be exact), we hosted our first Citizen Forester Qualifying class of the fall planting season – at the National Zoo! Following up on last year’s very successful planting at the Zoo’s American Trail, this year we brought out 78 volunteers to not only help plant 31 trees, but to [...]
Read full postCTP Recap: Kingsbury, Maury, & Wangari Memorial
Our first few Community Tree Plantings of the fall season have been characterized by some fresh faces, but familiar spaces. It was our second time visiting both the Kingsbury Day School and the Maury Elementary School (on September 27th and on October 4th, respectively). Needless to say, our Crew Member Josh Singer was no stranger at the Wangari Memorial [...]
Read full postA Record-Breaking Spring
Records continue to pile up for our flagship Community Tree Planting (CTP) program. This spring, nearly 1,300 adult and youth volunteers planted 817 trees — the most ever — at 47 sites across the District. A record number of fruit trees — 253 total — were also planted, mainly at community gardens and school grounds. [...]
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