Our April Seedlings recipient is Tree Trust. Round up your purchases all month long to support their work.

Tree Trust’s mission is to transform lives and landscapes by engaging people to build skills for meaningful careers, inspiring people to plant trees and making our community a greener, healthier place to live. Emerald ash borer, a non-native pest, is continuing to attack our tree canopy in Minnesota, resulting in a devastating, far-reaching loss of trees. Tree Trust’s goal is to replenish the tree canopy through community and school tree-plantings and municipal tree distributions to property owners. Through these efforts, they are leveraging the power of public/private partnerships to provide results that will benefit us all.   

Funds will support Tree Trust’s Community Forestry initiatives. By planting trees in public, private and residential areas, students, local residents and community volunteers have the opportunity to learn about the environment and create positive change for generations to come. Tree Trust’s Community Forestry programs include: Community Tree Plantings, Residential Tree Distributions, Learning with Trees programming at schools and trainings to educate and prepare volunteers to become “Branch Managers” – those who help facilitate volunteer tree plantings.