Planting Trees – a How-To Workshop Saturday, April 20
Event: Tree Planting Workshop (FREE)
Saturday, April 20, 2024
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Volunteer Tree Planting
Saturday, April 27, 2024
9am-12noon
Locations: Torn Space Theater (behind Adam Mickiewicz Library)
612 Fillmore Ave
Buffalo, NY 14212
Volunteer tree planting – various locations in the City of Buffalo
The Buffalo Green Fund, Re-Tree and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County are hosting a
course entitled Planting Trees – a How-To Workshop as a part of their ongoing effort to educate
volunteers in the planting of trees within City of Buffalo and along other community rights-of-way and
public areas. Attendees will learn how trees promote better air quality and quality of life, how to
select the right tree for the right location, proper planting techniques, and more.
The morning will end with a tree planting in the area of the Torn Space Theater/ Adam Mickiewicz
Library at approximately 11:30 AM.
The course is free of charge and open to the public. Those who wish to attend are asked to log onto
www.BuffaloGreenFund.org and fill out the online form.
IMPORTANT: If your group is planting on April 27th with Re-Tree trees, at least one member must
attend the workshop on April 20 unless you have trained at other previous sessions.
On Saturday, April 27, 2024, event partners will be planting dozens of trees on city streets in the City
of Buffalo. Volunteers are welcome to participate. To join in the planting, log onto
Buffalo Green Fund, Inc. I PO Box 282 I East Amherst, NY 14051 I www.BUFFALOGREEENFUND.org
www.BuffaloGreenFund.org/volunteer and in the message field, note that you would like to help
plant on April 27, 2024 and how many you have in your group. Planting will start at 9am and will
take place rain or shine.
Re-Tree, a program of the Buffalo Green Fund, is a not-for-profit all-volunteer organization formed
as a response to the October 12, 2006 surprise Buffalo snowstorm which destroyed 57,000 trees in
the public areas of eighteen WNY municipalities. Re-Tree’s efforts saw over 60,000 trees being
restored in these areas as of April, 2019. This includes 30,000 trees planted by volunteers with
donated funds and matched one-for-one by the municipalities with their crews and contractors. Re-
Tree continues its volunteer efforts to boost the canopy that is continuously being decimated by
disease, climate change, and other factors. Donations are most needed to continue this mission.
To donate, and for more information, please log onto www.Re-TreeWNY.org.
