Volunteers Needed, Spring Tree Plantings

Posted by on March 23, 2009

Hello All Tree Lovers!

Welcome to the Spring Planting Season!!  PHS and the DCNR TreeVitalize program are thrilled to announce that more than 1,000 trees will be planted this spring in the greater Philadelphia/SE PA region.  Planting all those trees will take quite a bit of volunteer-power and we need all the help we can get!  If you would be willing to help plant trees in Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery or Chester Counties, or in Philadelphia, please read on!

Here are the locations of the bare root tree plantings, any information we currently have about the planting day, and the person to contact for more information and for volunteering:

Saturday March 28

Bucks County
Yardley Borough — 47 trees –Sue [email protected]

Delaware County
Chester City — 18 trees –Lisa Gaffney–610-447-7861–[email protected]
Lansdowne — 50 trees —  Mary Lou Jennings– 610-622-0162– [email protected]
Marple Newtown — 50 trees — Rick Ray–610-328-6181– [email protected]
Nether Providence– 10 trees — Gary Cummings — 610-566-4516 — [email protected]
Upper Darby Township — 60 trees —  Clyde Hunt — 610-449-9333 — [email protected]

Montgomery County
Abington/Glenside — Rita Stevens — 215-887-4250 — [email protected]

Chester County
Malvern –Tony Dufour — 610-806-2523 — [email protected]

Saturday, April 25th

Norristown Borough ~ 45 trees
Jean Holland — 610- 278-3554  [email protected]

In Philadelphia
Group: Holmesburg Tree Tenders ~39 trees
Peg Muldowney — 215-331-2747 [email protected]
Meet at 8am at Holmesburg Rec. Center 4500 Rhawn St.
Need tools
One tree leader for planting demonstration
Planting volunteers (unskilled)

Group: Northeast Tree Tenders ~90 tees
Hasan Malik —  215 694 9607 [email protected]
April 25th (small planting) and May 2nd (large planting) at 9 am.
Meet at Al Furqan mosque, 7252 Roosevelt Boulevard next to the dollar tree at cottman and the boulevard
Need One tree leader (skilled)
Planting volunteers (unskilled)

MLK Village ~14 trees
Raed Nasser —  610-636-0504 – [email protected]
Meet at 10am at the Corner of 13th and Fitzwater
Need tools
Planting Day Demo
Tree leaders (skilled)

Newbold Neighbors Association ~22 trees
Leslianna Federici —  609-501-1634  [email protected]
Meet at 10:30am at DiSilvestro Recreation Center, 15th and Morris, 19145
Need Planting Day Demo
Planting leaders (skilled) – would like at least one other leader for that day to do demo’s while I organize people

Hunting Park Tree Tenders ~16 trees
Mike Roth —  215-370-8029, [email protected]
Meet at 10:00 at 6th and Courtland, Philadelphia, PA 19140
Need Tools (it would be helpful to have some extra shovels)
One or two Planting leaders (skilled)

Fairmount TT ~90 trees
BARBARA EPSTEIN — 215-765-3092 (H)  215-704-2511 (C)                                                                  [email protected]

Meet at 8:00 am at WARD PARK, 24th & ASPEN ST.
Need Planting leaders (skilled)
Planting volunteers (unskilled)

KSNAC ~80 trees
Lisa Maiello   215-232-6467  [email protected]
Kensington Neighborhood
Meet at 10:00AM  Location TBA

Sunday April 26th

New Kensington CDC  ~19 trees
Marlene Buck — 215-427-0350 ext. 122/ [email protected]
Meet at 10am at NKCDC Garden Center
Need Planting volunteers (unskilled)

Saturday May 2nd

Diversified Community ~6 trees
Cheryl Weiss 215-336-5505 Ext 342
Meeting at Diversified Community Center
1529 S. 22nd St. ( 22nd and Tasker)
Need one tree leader

Sunday May 3rd

Philly Tree People  ~40 trees
Nykia M. Perez —  215-284-6383 and [email protected]
Planting time10:30 am until 1:30.  Meet at 2771 Jasper Street, Phila., PA 19134 for planting. Lunch afterward at the Philadelphia Brewing Company for volunteers at 2423-39 Amber Street Philadelphia, PA 19125.

Need Pick up trucks and drivers
Planting Day Demo – may have some high school students who need demonstration planting
Planting leaders (skilled)
Planting volunteers (unskilled)

So….
Thanks, as always, for your dedication to Tree Tending!  What a huge difference we all can make!