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Does your street or neighborhood need more trees?

December 24, 2024 - December 31, 2024

You can work with Providence Neighborhood Planting Proposal (PNPP) to organize your own Neighborhood Street Tree Planting! This program is the main way we get new street trees planted in Providence. Here’s how it works:

Each Spring & Fall, residents, business owners, or community members can apply as a group to receive free street trees in their neighborhood in exchange for helping to plant and take care of the young trees alongside their neighbors.

PNPP IS COMMITTED TO CREATING AN EQUITABLE URBAN FOREST IN PROVIDENCE. WE ENCOURAGE AND PRIORITIZE APPLICATIONS FROM NEIGHBORHOODS WITH THE LOWEST TREE CANOPY COVERElmwood, Federal Hill, Lower South Providence, Manton, Olneyville, Reservoir, Silver Lake, Smith Hill, Upper South Providence, Valley, Washington Park, West End.

(Read more about Tree Equity and where we do and don’t have trees in our city HERE!)

To organize a planting, someone acts as the “Tree Leader.” The Tree Leader then:
  • Completes a Neighborhood Planting Proposal form (HERE)
  • Communicates with PNPP staff & neighbors to sign up tree-recipients & develop the planting site list
  • Helps coordinate the logistics of the planting day
  • Checks in on the health & survival of trees after planting day

Each participant (a tenant or property owner)
who signs up to receive a free tree, commits to:

  • Join their neighbors on planting day to plant all the trees together
  • Water their trees for the first 2 growing seasons

You are not alone: PNPP provides training & guidance for all Tree Leaders and planting participants!

DEADLINES

Planting Proposals can be submitted at any time during the year, but to be considered for the upcoming planting season:

  • Proposals for Spring Plantings (in April) are due in DECEMBER
  • Proposals for Fall Plantings (in October) are due in JUNE

(You can also fill out THIS FORM and we’ll let you know if there happens to be a planting happening nearby that you can get added on to.)

Details

Start:
December 24, 2024
End:
December 31, 2024
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