Photo: On April 11, 2015, this crew of 45 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, September 19, 2015, 8 am – Noon Where: Quarry Hill Nature Center Community Ed Class Number: 8644.131 Price: $15.00 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…

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  The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year 1,000 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage. We need your help to add 200 more street trees to the Sunnyside and Slatterly Park neighborhoods in southeast Rochester.  Much of this planting will focus on planting the “Right Trees in the Right Place” through placing short stature trees under power lines to prevent problems in the future of the trees growing into the wires. Saturday, May 2…

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At RNeighbors, we know that trees make good neighbors. That is why we partner with the City of Rochester, the Park and Rec Department, MN Conservation Corps and Rochester Public Utilities to offer the RNeighborWoods Tree grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees in the spring and fall. Check out all of the sponsors who help us make this effort possible. Thanks to over 45 volunteers, 25 trees have found homes in this NW neighborhoods boulevards. Tree types included Pin Oak,…

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Photo: On Saturday, September 20, 2014, 52 folks spent their morning learning all about and planting trees in our Citizen Forester class. When: Saturday, April 11, 2015, 8 am – Noon Where: Quarry Hill Nature Center Community Ed Class Number: 8644.231 Price: $15.00 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, climbing and planting. You’ll be an active participant…

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Photo: On an amazing spring Saturday morning, May 3, 2014, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Knotting Hill Lane NW neighborhood plant their 25 trees, thanks to a well-deserved Neighborhood Tree Grant. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 4,156 volunteers to plant 5,147 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, RPU and RNeighbors is offering one grant for…

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Photo: On an amazing spring Saturday morning, May 3, 2014, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Knotting Hill Lane NW neighborhood plant their 25 trees, thanks to a well-deserved Neighborhood Tree Grant. At RNeighbors, we know that trees make good neighbors. That is why we partner with the City of Rochester, the Park and Rec Department, Herring Ecologistics, MN Conservation Corps, and Rochester Public Utilities to offer the RNeighborWoods Tree grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees in the spring and fall. Check out all of…

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