Help us plant trees in Peoplestown to help sustain our urban forest. These trees will provide cleaner air, cool shade, and all aroundimproved habitat for humans and wildlife living in our community. Planting tasks include digging holes with shovels/mattocks, untangling roots with your hands, mulching, watering, and cleaning up your area. Physical activity such as bending, lifting, and kneeling is required. Tree planting can be physically strenuous - be ready to break a sweat and get dirty!
What to wear and bring with you
- Gloves: Bring your own work gloves.
- Recommended clothing: Wear clothes and shoes you don't mind getting muddy. Long pants are recommended as you may be kneeling on the ground. All volunteers need closed-toed shoes or boots, clothes that can get dirty.
- Tools: Trees Atlanta provides necessary tools, but if you'd like to bring your own, any of the following tools would be helpful: shovels, hand trucks, mattocks, and hand cultivators.
- Drinking water: We strongly recommend you bring drinking water in reusable containers. No one-time-use plastic bottles, please.
- Allergy medication: If you've experienced life-threatening allergic reactions to insects, please come prepared with your own emergency medicine, such as an auto-injector or oral medication. Please notify the coordinator of your need for medication in the case of an allergic attack.
- You may also want: Sunscreen and bug spray as needed, snacks as needed (Trees Atlanta will not provide any of these items).
Schedule
- Bus will arrive in front of Forty
- The bus will leave a 8:40am
- The waiting time is of 10 minutes starting at 8:30am
- The ride will be of approximately 20 minutes
If you are running a late or are driving to the site, please email your site supervisor: Christelle Poteau (cpotea20@scad.student.edu) prior the departure time.
