Citizen Forester Workshop Saturday, September 26, 8 am-noon, at Quarry Hill Nature Center Over 20 Rochester folks came out early on Saturday, September 26, to learn all about trees at the Quarry Hill Nature Center. Jacob Ryg, Rochester City Forester led the class with help from Nate Runke, from Maier Forest and Tree and Jesse Hoekstra, RNeighborWoods committee member. Participants were taught about the Rochester urban forest, tree planting basics, care, basic arboriculture, urban forest advocacy, and as well as…

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Trees make good neighbors. Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods program has organized the planting of over 1,000 trees on Rochester boulevards, that provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. This spring the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant! We have 20 trees that will all be planted in a deserving neighborhood by the neighbors! You can read about the…

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On Saturday, April 25, over 150 neighbors, youth, and other community volunteers worked together to plant 100 trees in the Kutkzy Park neighborhood. Types of trees planted include Cleveland Pear (smaller tree for under power lines), Ginkgo, Kentucky Coffeetree, and Amur Maackia and now fill approximately 4,393 feet of boulevards. Once again we had a large youth representation, as well as a record number of Citizen Foresters who came out to guide the volunteers. Over its lifetime, each street tree…

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Trees make good neighbors. On May 2, Northwest neighbor Tim Nelson rallied his neighborhood together to plant 30 trees on a gorgeous spring Saturday morning. The types of trees planted include Cleveland Pear, Ginkgo, Kentucky Coffeetree, and Amur Maackia and now fill approximately 1,967 feet of street boulevards. This neighborhood was the recipient of the RNeighborWoods Spring Tree Grant. Two green thumbs up for the work these neighbors and the RNeighborWoods group put in to add trees to their tree-less…

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Citizen Forester Workshop Saturday, April 18, 8 am-noon, at Quarry Hill Nature Center An record breaking class of 28 individuals came out early on Saturday, April 18, to learn all about trees at the Quarry Hill Nature Center. Jacob Ryg, Rochester City Forester led the class with help from Nate Runke, from Maier Forest and Tree and Jesse Hoekstra, RNeighborWoods committee member. Participants were taught about the Rochester urban forest, tree planting basics, care, basic arboriculture, urban forest advocacy, and…

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  Trees make good neighbors. Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods program has organized the planting of over 1,000 trees on Rochester boulevards, that provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. This spring the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant! We have 20 trees that will all be planted in a deserving neighborhood by the neighbors! You can read about…

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Trees make good neighbors. Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods program has organized the planting of over 1,000 trees on Rochester boulevards, that provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. This spring the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant! We have 20 trees that will all be planted in a deserving neighborhood by the neighbors! You can read about the…

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Sandy made this park just a “Litter Bit Better” by participating in a litter pick-up in April 2008. On Thursday, January 29, Sandy Chang was honored as one of the recipients of an RCTC Beat the Odds scholarship. This program is an annual event that celebrates youth who have overcome tremendous odds to become personally and academically successful. The purpose of the program is to raise awareness of the struggles of many youth in our community and recognize their ability…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Tue, 2008-11-04 09:36. The below story was written by Jesse Hoekstra. Jesse loves trees! He has his forestry degree, is a certified Citizen Forester, volunteers in the RNeighborWoods program, and submitted a grant proposal for the 2008 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant. His grant was accepted and now 30 new boulevard trees are beautifying the older Eastside neighborhood’s streets thanks to his community activism. Keep an eye on this website for the 2009 Spring RNeighborWoods…

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100 trees were in the ground by 11 am. What a team! On Saturday, September 27, over 175 school and service groups, neighbors, families, RNeighborWoods partners, volunteers, and Citizen Foresters joined together in a morning of service to plant 100 new trees in the southeast Rochester neighborhood of Homestead Park. Thanks to the Olmsted County Youth Commission, youth came out in force to green up this neighborhood. All local high schools were represented, including Stewartville and Byron. A high density…

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