Trees for Oakland

After Planting Trees, unique opportunity to return to our Meeting Location for Free Tastings at Ale Industries Brewery and learn about our fall planting schedule. Looking for a small but impactful way to help in the fight against climate change, and green your community over a weekend? Volunteer to plant trees! Our Tree Team plants trees in sidewalks all around Oakland. As these trees grow, they help to improve air quality, sequester carbon, and improve the environmental conditions of our neighborhoods. Many of the beautiful large trees you see along sidewalks are a result of our volunteers, and we still have so much more to do. No experience is required, but volunteers should be ready to do some digging and get a bit dirty.
What: Planting trees along sidewalks and streets in Oakland for homeowners. After the training, we will split into smaller groups and drive to the sites.
Who: You! Bring your friends and/or make new ones. No experience is needed. You should be able to lift 30 pounds (half the weight of a new tree).
What to Bring: Wear closed-toed shoes, clothes that you can get dirty, and a hat for sun protection; bring your own water, lunch and a snack. We'll provide the shovels, picks, brooms, and gloves, but if you have your own please bring them along as we are short on supplies these days.
If you are bringing a minor, please let us know.
How: Dig a hole, take the tree out of its pot and put it into the ground, backfill the soil around the roots, and sweep the sidewalk clean. (Don't worry; we'll teach you whatever you don't know -- or take a peek at the guide here: http://www.treesforoaklandflatlands.org/plant-a-tree.html)
Where: Meet at our staging area at 1045 Derby Ave and East 10th St, 10 minutes walk from Fruitvale BART. The trees will be in other places around town, so please be on time so we can meet before we disperse.
We can plant in light rain, but if we decide to cancel because of heavier rain, we'll announce it here by 8am.
For more information or to join our email list, contact us at treesforoakland.org
Note: There is no bathroom on-site so make sure to go before you arrive!
If you are lost or running late, call or text Amy at 510 301 0390

Help our tree project plant new trees by recycling tree stakes from sidewalk areas. This is an activity we do each rainy season to collect old stakes that are no longer needed so they can be reused for new trees that we plant. This is the first time we'll be doing this for the 2023-2024 planting season, and we're down to our last couple stakes. So let's go get some stakes!

You will be instructed how to properly remove stakes without injuring yourself, and you'll get to see some interesting neighborhoods you probably never otherwise would.

Reasons you may want to join us:

• help our Tree Planting team, which uses the stakes to plant new trees
• see parts of Oakland you never saw before
• get some healthy exercise
• check out how other east bay homeowners are doing "landscaping"

Some exercise will be involved, so please make sure you eat something before. Please bring a pair of gloves, wear your dirtiest clothing (you WILL get dirty / muddy), and a bottle of water. It helps if you're taller than 5'4; however, if you're not blessed with height and still want to assist, we can put you to work in other ways (like moving stakes around and scouting / pickup / driving.)

Meet @ our TFO Storage Yard on Derby Ave. where we will form carpools and drive to the site. If you can't be there at 10 but wish to participate later, please text me at 510-759-6646 for locations.

NOTE: Please come prepared for the weather. We have a critical need for stakes now, so this event will happen rain or shine. (it's also easier to remove them when the ground is soft.)

LOCATION: TFO Storage Yard, 3101 East 10th St. (@ Derby, near Ale Industries)

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you!