If your neighborhood wants to save the planet, help the environment, and beautify the neighborhood all at the same time, just plant a few trees!

The City of Seattle Tree Fund is available to help make this as easy as possible. 

Here’s how it works:

• Get a minimum of five households together who will agree to plant the trees in the planting strip along your street, and care for them.
• The city arborist (did you know that we had one?) will provide a list of tree varieties appropriate for your neighborhood, and you can then request 10-40 trees for planting.  Neighbors must attend a training session that will give instructions about how the trees are to be planted, provide some basic care instructions, and answer any questions about how to nurture the trees to adulthood. 
• Trees are delivered in the fall, the prime planting time.  Neighbors show up with tools and equipment, and the planting begins.

The trees are free, but in exchange the neighborhood must organize the planting, assume responsibility for watering and nurturing the trees, and maintain and prune them.

It’s a win/win!

Photo credit: SXC

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Post from: The Seattle Traveler