City Free Trees
posted by on August 17 at 13:01 PM
Is your neighborhood a barren concrete wasteland? (I’m talking to you, Georgetown.)
Well, the Department of Neighborhoods is accepting applications for FREE TREES through their “Tree Fund” program.
In exchange for free trees to be delivered by the City this fall, groups of neighbors attend a City sponsored training session and then organize their neighbors to plant the trees.Seattle’s tree cover has shrunk from 40 percent of the city’s land area in 1972 to just 18 percent today, a decline that threatens nature’s ability to help manage storm water, reduce erosion, absorb climate-disrupting gases and clean the air.
Groups of five households or more on a street or block are eligible to apply.
Groups of households on a street or block can request a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 40 trees per project.
The application deadline is NEXT FRIDAY!!!So get on that.
Plant some trees, wait a few years, build a treehouse and then rent it out to some poor schmuck. That’s Mazooma in the bank.
Contact the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods at (206) 684-0464 or go to www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nmf/treefund.htm for more info.
I looked at their website, it says apps are due August 24th. Gonna get me some trees!
ain't no more room in my yard.
anyone want a 50 year old blue spruce that's been tortured into dr. seuss shapes?
Yes, do plant trees, but remember that you have to water them during the summer for the first couple of years or they'll just up and, like, die on you.
I feel pretty lucky. I have three trees on my property and two more I share with my neighbors. The latter two are fucking huge, old things and I love them.
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