We are very excited about this year's Arbor Day! Arbor Day is a day when communities celebrate things that are near and dear to our hearts here at Neighborhood Fruit - trees! The Fruit Girls will be joining the celebration here in our home city of San Francisco and we strongly encourage you to join the celebration in your community. Regardless of where you are, and when Arbor Day falls in your area, we would like to encourage you to get out and plant a fruit tree.
Here is a patial listing of Arbor Day celbrations, to find a celebration in your community, please visit the Arbor Day Foundation website. If you would like your event added to our list, please contact us.
San Francisco, CA: 10th Anniversary and Arbor Day Celebration
The Community Clean Team is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2010! The annual kickoff:
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Alemany Farm at 700 Alemany and Ellsworth
9 am to 12 noon.
This event is also part of the City's Arbor Day celebration. Volunteers will plant fruit trees, work on landscaping and gardening projects, remove weeds, abate graffiti, and pick up litter at Alemany Farm, Holly Court, San Francisco Public Housing Developments, Brotherhood Way, and neighborhoods throughout Districts 9 and 11.
A green resource fair will also take place on site to provide information on sustainability, water conservation, recycling, composting, greening, and various city services. There are children's activities that will both entertain and educate kids to raise their environmental awareness.
Join us to help make San Francisco a livable, vibrant, and sustainable city and enjoy music, food, and fun!
To volunteer: email us, or call (415) 641-2600.
New Jersey Tree Foundation For the 12th consecutive year, the New Jersey Tree Foundation is offering free two-year-old trees (1’ – 2’ tall) to celebrate Arbor Day occurring April 30, 2010. A variety of evergreen and deciduous trees are available. Schools, local governments, tree groups, non-profit organizations, scout groups, and any volunteer organization may apply for the free trees. All planting must occur on public lands, be done by volunteers and maintained for two years.
There are many ways the trees can be used to beautify your neighborhood. Trees can be planted in a vacant lot to create an urban forest, planted as a windbreak for a community garden or at a school, planted in a nursery, or trees can be planted randomly throughout a park or cemetery.
For more information about this project please check their website.
White Bear Lake, MN
The Park Commission is planning to celebrate Arbor Day in White Bear Lake with a variety of tree planting and environmental projects on Saturday, May 1, 2010, beginning at 8:00 a.m. and concluding around noon.
The work events will be followed by a picnic at the Lions Pavilion at Lakewood Hills Park, sponsored by the Lions Club. A variety of community groups will take part in the Arbor Day activities.
If you are interested in getting involved with the White Bear Lake Arbor Day events, please contact Mark Burch at (651) 429-8531.
For more information about this project please check their website.
Hawaii Arbor Day
Arbor Day in Hawaii officially falls on the first Friday in November, which in 2010 will be on Friday, November 5. Most of the Arbor Day celebrations and tree giveaways across the state will take place on Saturday, November 6.
For more information about this project please check their website.
