Deadline for street tree orderers : March 1, 2008

Street Tree Planting $$ due by March 1, 2008

Please send us $30 per tree!!! This will cover the cost of the tree, the stakes and the stake ties.

Additional donations are greatly appreciated to help cover the cost of trees for others who cannot afford them or in the case of cash other expenses related to the tree planting!

Checks or money orders should be made out to:
PA Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495

You can give cash, checks or money orders to Dina, Jacelyn or Nykia or you can drop off or mail your payment to: Philly Tree People, c/o Nykia Perez, 2125 E. Norris Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125.

Please email us at PhillyTreePeople@gmail.com for more information if needed.
Contact us if you'd like to buy dog or cat treats - we've made these to raise money for supplies and trees. Thanks.

Save The Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008

We'll be planting 74 trees on Sunday, March 16, 2008 with the help of neighbors and other volunteers. The tree planting will begin at 10 AM. Details on our meeting place will be coming soon. We'll need volunteers for several tasks and we will provide details in the next few weeks.

Dog and Cat treat fundraiser for trees

We'll be selling home made dog treats and cat treats at the next East Kensington Neighborhood Association Meeting for $2 and $3 a bag as a fundraiser for the March 2008 tree planting.
To learn more about EKNA see: http://ekna.wordpress.com/

Thank you to everyone who requested trees and to everyone who has supported us one way or another thus far!

Call For Volunteers: Week of March 10-14, 2008

At the moment we're looking for about 8-12 people who can be on call during the following days to help us process, sort and pick up the trees from Fairmount Park which is where they will be delivered by the tree nursery. At this point we don't know which day the trees will arrive or what time we'll be expected to show up. We do know it will take approximately 4 hours and the trees will arrive on one of the days during the week of March 10-14, 2008.

If you are interested in volunteering for this job specifically send us an email (phillytreepeople@gmail.com) and tell us which days during that week you are available.

We'll need volunteers for several other tasks as well and will provide details soon.

Thank You to PHS

Thank you to the PHS (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society) for planning to cut all of the sidewalks and properly disposing of the rubble for our neighborhoods for free this year.

This was going to be a time consuming task and costly task for our group and the neighbors that had volunteered to lend hand, their equipment and expertise.

Now we have more time to plan the rest of the tasks, details, and the lunch for volunteers that will happen after the trees are planted.

Learn more about PHS here: http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/