How
If you’re interested in us…we’re interested in you!
Volunteers are welcome to help in all parts of the process, from planning events to planting trees.
We’re a new group, dedicated to growing organically. We’re also still young and developing, so if you’ve got energy or skills that can help, your effort can go a long way towards shaping the future.
What can we do together?
Uphold the right of all citizens to live in a treed neighbourhood
Help create community orchards
Manage Tree Care Hotline
Provide fruit tree planting and pruning expertise
Help schools plant and nuture teaching orchards
Promote fruit trees in low income areas for food, shade, beauty
Offer memorial and honour tree planting service
Provide guidance on planting native tree/shrub species for wildlife habitat
Research and explain best practices for local urban forestry enhancement
Produce a tree-based map of the city
Guide the natural restoration of abandoned/derelict/underused areas through trees
Coordinate Tree Tours of the city for residents and visitors
Bring neighbours together through tree-related events
Promote media awareness of the benefits of the urban forest
Coordinate private and public plantings to enhance ecosystems
Counter the effects of climate change through carbon sequestration with trees
Keep public funding for public trees on the public agenda
Reintroduce Vancouvers Civic Arbor Day Celebration (1917 law)
Train a new generation of urban forest stewards through K-12 program
Research and adapt multicultural uses of public fruit trees
Plant trees!
Contact us today to learn more and perhaps take the first step to something exciting.
