PTP Pruning Club Fall 2011 - Upcoming Events

Philly Tree People Pruning Club Fall 2011

Upcoming Events

Sat., October 8, 2011, 9am-Noon
Frankford Ave. & Cumberland St. 19125
**Special Orchard Tree Pruning Event**

Sun., October 30, 2011, 10am-Noon
Belgrade and Venango Streets 19134

*****CANCELLED***** Sat., December 10, 2011

Save the Date November 20th Tree Planting

Philly Tree People Street Tree Planting
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Start 9:30 AM
Meeting Place: Berks St. & Frankford Ave.
(NKCDC Garden Center)
Please help plant over 100 trees in Fishtown, Port Richmond, and East Kensington.
Pick-up trucks (& drivers) needed.
Tools will be provided. Bring gloves.
Two hours of planting estimated.
No experience necessary.
Rain or Shine!
If you have questions please email us at phillytreepeople@gmail.com.

Save the date!

Please save the date, all are welcome, pickup trucks are needed, all tools and lunch will be provided.

Philly Tree People Fall 2011 Tree Planting
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Location & Time: TBA

PTP Street Tree Planting Sunday, April 17, 2011 Start time 9:30 AM

PTP Street Tree Planting
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Start time 9:30 AM
NEW Meeting Place:
Berks & Frankford
(NKCDC Garden Center)
Download the Flyer

Please help plant 70 trees in Fishtown, Port Richmond, and East Kensington.
Pick-up trucks (& drivers) needed. Tools will be provided. Bring gloves.
Two hours of planting estimated. Food and drinks provided. Lunch after planting at the Philadelphia Brewing Company on York and Martha. For more information please email: phillytreepeople@gmail.com

2 upcoming events - Volunteers Needed

1. PTP FALL Pruning Club Event
Sunday, November 14, 2010, 10am to Noon, Emerald & Dauphin Sts. (Emerald Street Park) 19125
Volunteers needed. All ages welcome, no training or tools required. Refreshments provided.

2. This is our biggest planting yet ....
PTP FALL 2010 Planting: November 21, 2010, 10am-1pm
Sunday, 2771 Jasper Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134
(Located between Somerset and Lehigh, and between Frankford and Kensington Aves.)
Volunteers Needed!!!!!!!!!! Please help us plant nearly 140 trees.
Pick-up trucks (& drivers) needed. Please email us if you would like to volunteer your truck. Tools will be available for planting. Bring gloves if you can. Food and drinks provided. Lunch after planting at the Philadelphia Brewing Company for volunteers (formerly Yards Brewing) on York and Martha. Two to three hours of planting estimated.

PTP Pruning Club

Please Join Us:
Philly Tree People Pruning Club Summer 2010 season begins on 6/29/2010

All meetings are held from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

* June 29 (Tues.) Location: Somerset & Thompson Sts. (in Port Richmond) 19134
* July 14 (Wed.) Location: Emerald & Dauphin Sts. (Emerald St. Park) 19125
* August 18 (Wed.) Location: Frankford Ave. & E. Norris St. (Rocket Cat Café), 19125

Everyone is welcome and no experience is necessary. Tools will be provided.

Contact Us to Get Involved
phillytreepeople@gmail.com (email)
http://www.phillytreepeople.org (website)

FYI this event has been canceled:
CANCELED: * June 9 (Wed.) Location: Amber & Hagert Sts. (behind Phila. Brewing Co) 19125 CANCELED

Cancelled: Pruning Club Today 6/9/2010

The rain has rained on our pruning parade. We will not hold pruning club today. See you next time.

Upcoming Events

1. Saturday, May 1, 2010 @ 9am: Northeast Tree Tenders Spring 2010 Tree Planting
Philly Tree People will be lending a hand to the Northeast Tree Tenders. They will be planting 50 street and yard trees all over the Northeast and we have the tools and the trees, but will need many hands to help us plant! Please come out and help beautify the NE and have lots of fun in the process! Meet at 9am at Al Furqan Mosque at 7252 Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia right next to the Dollar Tree Store at the intersection of Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard. http://netreetenders.com/

2. Sunday, May 9, 2010 @ 12 noon: Mother's Day Flower Planting on Huntingdon Street
Join us on Mother ’s Day for a special gardening event! NKCDC and Philly Tree People will be helping neighbors clean out and plant flowers in tree pits between Kensington Avenue and Frankford Avenue! Bring your own gloves. Water and healthy snacks will be provided. Starting up at 12 noon. Meet up at Huntingdon and Emerald Streets.

3. Saturday, May 22, 2010 @ 12pm-5pm: Trenton Avenue Arts Fest & Kinetic Sculpture Derby
This is a sprinkle or shine event (severe weather date is planned for Sunday, May 23rd, 12pm-5pm). This event is being held on Trenton Avenue (between Norris and Frankford), Philadelphia, PA, 19125. This is the East Kensington/Fishtown neighborhood. There will be many local artists, live music, neighborhood nonprofits, dozens of sculpture derby participants and more. For more information see: http://trentonaveartsfest.blogspot.com/ & http://kinetickensington.org/

Stay Tuned: In June our Pruning Club will begin.

Live in or around the 19125 (or nearby in 19134) zip code? Want to learn about trees?

PHS & the Philly Tree People are hosting a mini Tree Tenders workshop for residents of the 19125 zip code on Wednesday, October 28th at 6pm to 8pm at Coral Street Arts House (2446 Coral Street, Philadelphia PA 19125) as part of the Sustainable 19125 initiative, a partnership between the New Kensington CDC and more than 60 individual residents and groups.

The workshop will cover basic tree care, how trees grow, urban stresses on trees, and a bare root tree planting how-to. You can RSVP to Alice Edgerton at PHS, aedgerton@pennhort.org

or 267-968-0863, but walk-ins are welcome.

Save the date of Saturday, November 21 for a local volunteer bare root tree planting. More info at the workshop from Philly Tree People.

Thanks you to our Volunteer Pruners

We had a successful event this past Saturday for our first Philly Tree People Pruning Club event at Greensgrow. 14 volunteers came out and collectively worked for a total of 51 volunteer work hours and we pruned 33 trees. Amazing!!!

Come out to one of our next upcoming events on:

***Pruning Club Meet-up 2: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 9am – 11am, Location: Richmond Street at E. Tioga Street, 19134

***Pruning Club Meet-up 3: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 9am – 11am, Location: Frankford Avenue at E. Palmer Street, 19125

***Pruning Club Meet-up 4: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 9am – 11am, Location: Frankford Avenue at E. York Street, 19125

New Google Calendar on PTP's website

Stay informed with Philly Tree People's events and activities with ease. See our calendar or subscribe.

PTP has a new web address

http://www.phillytreepeople.org/

It still has the same basic layout and content as our old site for now - but we'll be working to upgrade.

Please visit, download applications for street trees, sign up for the next Tree Tenders Training, and donate!

Thanks.

It's official - PTP has received 501c3 status

Thank you to everyone who has supported our efforts in one way or another.

Now we'll be able to apply for some grants we were not already able to do.

Any donations you make to Philly Tree People will continue to be entirely tax deductible.

Please help us plant over 70 trees May 3, 2009

Philly Tree People Street Tree Planting
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Start 10:00 AM

Please help us plant over 70 trees.
Pick‐up trucks (& drivers) needed. Please email us (phillytreepeople [@] gmail.com) if you would like to volunteer your truck. Also email us if you are an experienced planter and want to lead a team.

Tools will be available for planting. Bring gloves if you can.

Meeting Place: 2771 Jasper Street, Philadelphia, 19134
(Located between Somerset and Lehigh, and between Frankford and Kensington Aves.)

Food and drinks provided. Lunch after planting at the Philadelphia Brewing Company for volunteers (formerly Yards Brewing) on York and Martha. Two hours of planting estimated.

We now accept Paypal and Credit Card donations

Philly Tree People is dedicated to helping people get trees, and maintaining those trees. We are a small volunteer organization run by three neighborhood gals.

Donate to Philly Tree People:

Please help us maintain our commitment to excellence. Your donation will keep our group moving forward and allow us to continue planting and caring for trees in your neighborhood. We can’t do it without you. We can’t do it without your donation. We strongly urge you to make a donation of $30 per tree you request to help offset costs associated with planning large tree plantings and the subsequent maintenance of trees.

Thanks!

November 2009 Tree Request Deadline March 1, 2009

Hello Folks,

If you (or someone you know) live in 19125 or 19134 and wants but does not yet have a tree planted on the sidewalk in front of your home or in your front yard please apply for a tree to be planted in November of 2009. To apply download and complete our application from our website and get it to us as soon as possible and no later than March 1, 2009: http://phillytreepeople.googlepages.com/

We'd like to plant 100 trees in November 2009 - so send us your applications. Help us meet our goal.

If you have a stump - please send us an email with a completed Philly Tree People Fall 2009 Property Owner Tree Request Form as well as the Fairmount Park Tree Request Form (this is a total of two different request forms). We have a group of people who have stumps to be removed and we will be arranging a list to send to Fairmount Park with the hopes that they will have the time and resources to handle an organized and group stump removal request.

As a reminder - we are volunteers and do not work for PHS, TreeVitalize or Fairmount Park but we do work with employees of those organizations on behalf of homeowners to get trees planted.

Please contact us if you have any questions. Thanks.

PTP featured in the Inquirer

Take a look:

"Three Kensington women doing their part: Tree People are planting a new future for Philly" by Ginny Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 5, 2008 (Section E)

Thank you very much!!!

Thank you to the dozens of volunteers who came out on November 16, 2008. Volunteers from all over the city helped to plant 85 of the 95 trees we planted in total this Fall. We could not have done this without your help and support.

We'll have many more opportunities to volunteer to plant and do other work related to tree plantings coming soon - as soon as March/April 2009 which is when our next planting will take place. Details will be announced asap.

Half of our photos are available online here (these were taken by Chris Kibler). Click here!

(The forthcoming photos were taken by Jeff Carpineta.)

Sustainable Christmas Trees are available at Greensgrow farm

Sustainable Christmas Trees are available at Greensgrow farm. Our trees are locally grown here in Pennsylvania (did you know most Xmas trees come from Canada?!) They were freshly cut on the 17th of November. You will receive biodegradable netting and removal bags as part of your purchase. You also have the option of buying a ball + burlap tree that we will plant somewhere in the neighborhood if you return it the farm after the holidays. All that adds up to a truly sustainable tree!

Greensgrows Holiday Hours through December 23rd
Wednesday through Saturday, 10am to 7pm
Sundays, 11am - 4pm

GREENSGROW FARMS
http://www.greensgrow.org

Volunteers Needed: PTP Tree Planting November 16, 2008

Street Tree Planting
Sunday, Nov 16, 2008
Start 10:00 AM
Please help us plant over 90 trees in 19125 and 19134

Pick‐up trucks (& drivers) needed. Please email us if you would like to volunteer your truck. Tools will be available for planting. Bring gloves if you can.

Meeting Place: 2771 Jasper Street, Phila., 19134
(Located between Somerset and Lehigh, and between Frankford and Kensington Aves.)

Food and drinks provided. Lunch after planting at the Philadelphia Brewing Company for volunteers(formerly Yards Brewing) on York and Martha. Two hours of planting estimated.

Please email PhillyTreePeople@gmail.com for more info if needed.
http://phillytreepeople.googlepages.com/