All spring 2020 RNeighborWoods tree planting events are cancelled due to the COVID-19 virus including the Neighborhood Tree Grant, Citizen Forester Training, and Community Tree Planting. It is our hope that fall events will take place. We’ll need all of your help to ensure trees purchased for 2020 get planted in Rochester neighborhood boulevards. Photo: In Spring of 2019, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Lowertown Neighbors plant 25 trees as winners of the Neighborhood Tree Grant. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation…

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The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year up to 600 boulevard trees are removed due to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to the Century Point NE neighborhood (just off of East Circle just NE of Quarry Hill on Century Valley Rd.) neighborhood. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 7,000 volunteers to plant 7,752 boulevard trees. Saturday, October 12 Starting at 8:30 am (usually finished by 11…

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Photo: On a snowy Saturday, April 13, 2019, this crew spent four hours learning about, planting and pruning trees. They now can advocate and care for Rochester’s urban trees as official Citizen Foresters. When: Saturday, September 21, 8:30 am – Noon Where: 125 Live, 125 Elton Hills Drive NW Registration: Community Education Class Price: $15 Become a part of the Rochester urban forester team through this course led by the City of Rochester Forestry Division and RNeighborWoods. This class is packed with tree education…

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Photo: As winners of the spring Neighborhood Tree Grant on May 11, 2019, the Lowertown Neighbors, with the help of the RNeighborWoods team planted 25 new trees in their boulevards. When asked in the grant application why they wanted these trees they answered “our streets use to be lined with beautiful Elm trees making a canopy over the street.  The influx of diseases have left our streets barren.  We would like to see the streets lined with trees providing shade again.”    Trees…

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The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year up to 600 boulevard trees are removed due to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to the SE Eastwood Hills neighborhood. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 6,441 volunteers to plant 7,230 boulevard trees. Saturday, April 27 Starting at 8:30 am (usually finished by 11 am) Meeting place 969-973 Golfers Ct SE (in Cul-de-sac between) Parking on any…

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Photo: On Saturday, October 27, 2018, this crew spent four hours learning about, planting and pruning trees. They now can advocate and care for Rochester’s urban trees as official Citizen Foresters. When: Saturday, April 13, 8 am – Noon Where: 125 Live, 125 Elton Hills Drive NW Registration: Eventbrite Registration Price: $10.00 Become a part of the Rochester urban forester team through this course led by the City of Rochester Forestry Division and RNeighborWoods. This class is packed with tree education and of course,…

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Photo: On September 22, 2018, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Historic SW Neighbors plant 25 trees as winners of the fall Neighborhood Tree Grant. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 6,441 volunteers to plant 7,230 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Rochester’s urban forest includes 41,177 public trees on neighborhood boulevards and parks. In one year 33,100 lbs of pollutants were removed from the air…

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Rochester’s urban forest needs your help to plant some trees in the Bamber Hills neighborhood. On Saturday, October 13, we’ll be planting 200 trees on the boulevards of 32nd Street -40th Street, Halling Place SW-Windsor Chase Drive SW.  Tree types to be planted include Hawthorne, Serviceberry, Crabapple, Ohio Buckeye, Black Cherry, Osage Orange, London Plane, Northern Pin Oak, Tulip Poplar, Hackberry, Burr Oak, Linden, Ironwood, Horse Chestnut, Yellowwood. Appropriate shorter trees will be planted under power lines. Saturday, October 13, 2018…

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Photo: On Saturday, September 17, 2016, this crew spent four hours learning about and planting trees. They now can advocate and care for Rochester’s urban trees as official Citizen Foresters. When: Saturday, October 27, 8 am – Noon Where: 125 Live, 125 Elton Hills Drive NW in the Maple Room Registration: Eventbrite Registration Price: $10.00 Become a part of the Rochester urban forester team through this course led by the City of Rochester Forestry Division and RNeighborWoods. This class is packed with tree…

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Photo: A Neighborhood Tree Grant planting took place Saturday, May 12, 2018. 11 Ave NE to 6 Ave NE and 14th Street NE to Kellogg Middle School got 25 brand new street trees. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 6,441 volunteers to plant 7,230 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Once again the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a…

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