Tracking Update

We have been working hard to try and collect data regarding all of the trees we have planted throughout the last two years. We have started making progress on the 2009 residents. All of our trees from 2009 were planted in the Burncoat neighborhood.

From 2009 Residents:

44 Streets have been visited. 53 Streets need to be visited.

247 Addresses have been visited. 2009 Resident Total Number of Addresses: 1077

88 or 36% can’t be viewed from the street

2 Trees need to be stacked:

9 Cutting Avenue

100 Francis

2 Dead:

92 Francis

35 Randall Street (we have already removed the tree, died cause it was planted above to many roots)

2nd Give Away of the Fall.

Today was our second give away of the Fall at ERA Key Reality on East Mountain Street. We had a good turnout and were able to gave away over 50 trees. Many of our trees went to Blaire Drive in Holden MA where we are working with the street to help them add a few more trees to there neighborhood.

Main South Celebrates 2010!

Saturday, September 25th was Main South Celebrates in Crystal Park. It was a day all about celebrating the neighborhood and what it represents. There were over 40 organization involved with live music most of the day, kids activities, free hamburgers, hot dogs and veggie burgers, horse drawn carriage rides, paddle boat rides and tons of people enjoying the beautiful weather and each other. Worcester Tree Initiative had a table at the event, along with the Worcester Forestry Department. Worcester Tree Initiative handed out stickers, beetle tatooes and information about our upcoming tree planting events. The forestry department brought all of their trucks with them. The forestry spent part of there day lifting kids into trees swinging them high above the ground. Most kids were willing to participate, but a few were affraid, one was even worried he'd get a weggie. Tree planting demonstrations also took place at 12 and 1pm.

Start on th Street

Today was a beautiful day at Start on the Street. I handed out over 100 calendars to people informing them of our upcoming give away events and hopefully many of them will come and recieve there tree. The Asian Longhorned Beetle tattoos were a major hit as always. We hopefully found a few new people who are willing to volunteer, but overall we were able to get the word out about all of the important work that we are doing.

Give Away #1

Today was the first give away of the fall and much like the first give away of spring 2010 it was cold, wet and rainy. But no amount of rain is going to stop the determined staff of the Worcester Tree Initiative. We planted four trees (two kousa dogwoods and two kwanza cherry) at Duffy Field. Despite the weather we still had people come looking for trees. We had trees avaliable for people who had been trained on Saturday at the yard sale, but we also lead training seasons today. Despite the weather we had an okay turn out.

Sunday September 19th Worcester Tree Initiative will be tabeling at Start on the Street. Also on Sunday is Train the Trainers where our new volunteers learn about our program and how to properly plant a tree to begin instilling knowlegde upon new tree stewards.

Looking for something to do?

Tom Zetterstrom

Portraits of American Trees

August 25-October 29th

Opening Sept. 19 4-6:30pm

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery

College of the Holy Cross

In gorgeous black-and-white images, he captures not just the natural grandeur of trees but their power to evoke deep yearnings in human viewers.

The Canaan, Conn., photographer's just-opened exhibit, "Tom Zetterstrom: Portraits of American Trees," transforms the Cantor Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross into a forest of photos where visitors can walk among maples and red pines, poplars and shagbark hickories.




Read about the opening!

September 11th Yard Sale

On Saturday, September 11th ERA Key Reality hosted a yard sale/ raffle with the intention of raising money for Worcester Tree Initiative. It was a beautiful day filled with lots of items being sold for 25 cents, with a few bigger priced items. ERA also organized a great raffle with prizes donated from many of the local businesses. At final count we raised somewhere between 1500 and 2000 dollars. Allen Snow, a DCR forester, lead a pruning class. We were also able to plant 3 flowering plum trees. It was a great day with members of the community working together to raise money for our great cause.



Some of the many items that were for sale.


Planting trees!

DCR Forester Allen Snow lead a pruning class.