Would you love to have a nice, shaded front yard?! Do you already have one but know someone else who might want one for free? SEA is excited to announce that we’ve received another grant from The Bower Charitable Foundation to plant 50 more free shade trees in the front yards of 50 additional residents in the City of Redding in Fall 2024!
The planting of these trees will help not only shade homes and provide lowered air conditioning costs but will also sequester carbon and provide a lush habitat for wildlife.
Residents wanting a free, front yard shade tree will need to fill out an interest form and commit and agree to water the tree for the first three years to ensure the planted tree will be able to adequately root into the ground and stabilize for future growth. We will have a pre-selected grouping of trees, including some native ones.
We will be asking that homeowners help SEA volunteers prepare the yard and help plant the trees unless there is a specific disability that won’t allow that. There will be several specific tree-planting weekends in the fall of 2024. Some, but not all, of the trees will be native and SEA will need to ensure specific trees will be the right fit for different yards and areas where they will be planted.
Trees will be supplied for free and planted by SEA volunteers and the homeowners receiving them. To express interest in having a tree planted in your front yard, please visit ecoshasta.org and fill out an application. If you would like to volunteer to help plant the shade trees, please contact david@ecoshasta.org
Hi, I’m I interested in receiving a tree from this grant. I live in Wooded Acres so I’m not sure if that qualifies, even though we have a Redding address.
Hi Amanda! Thank you so much for your interest. Unfortunately, the tree would have to be planted within the city limits of Redding.
Hi, I’m I interested in receiving a tree from this grant. I live in Wooded Acres so I’m not sure if that qualifies, even though we have a Redding address.