Tree Amigos are looking for 10 volunteers for the Shade Our Streets Pilot Program. The Goal of Shade Our Streets is to provide low or zero cost tree planting in the front yard of homes, just outside of the right-of-way. As a Volunteer, you will not actually be required to do anything except allow us to plant a minimum of 2 trees in your front yard. We will not be charging you anything. We will be using Groasis Waterboxx to establish the trees, so you will not even have to water the trees. Here are the requirement's to volunteer for this program:
- Must be the homeowner of the property
- Your property must be SOUTH of Ladybird Lake
- You must allow us to plant at least 2 trees in your front yard 10.5 feet from the curb
- You cannot cut the trees down for at least 5 years (Obviously you can cut them down if they die.)
- You cannot remove, move, or damage the Waterboxx
- You must pick your species from the following list:
Escarpment Live Oak
Cedar Elm
Montezuma Cypress
Monterrey Oak
Chinquapin Oak
Pecan
The Waterboxx will be left on the tree for 12 months, at which point we will retrieve the Waterboxx and the trees are yours to keep.
I am opening this up to /r/austingardening members first to give back to the community a bit.
We are trying to revolutionize Tree Planting in the American Southwest. If we can find a low cost, low water, and low time to establishment method to plant trees, we can drastically improve our canopy cover in our urban areas. The data and images we collect from this project will be invaluable as we develop this program and institutionalize it so that it can be exported all across the American Southwest, and later the world.
We are hoping to start planting near the end of November. If you are interested in applying to receive your free trees, please e-mail me at [aanstrom@austintreeamigos.com](mailto:aanstrom@austintreeamigos.com)
by austintreeamigos
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Boosting for more reach !! This is a great program unfortunately I live in round rock!
Love this! I have a yard full of oak trees already and the shade is so helpful.
Highly recommend the oaks over the cedar elm. I don’t even have elms in my yard, but they’re the bane of my existence. Tiny leaves and seeds blow in from the neighbors and sprouts pop up everywhere in all of my plant beds. At least with oaks, they’re dependent on the squirrels burying the acorns and they’re easy to pull.
Pecans aren’t bad either, but they will attract rats.
Sure wish we had someone doing this up here in Ding Dong. Very cool project!
Why just south? Some treeless neighborhoods around St Johns.
I live in Kyle, so outside this but my upcoming project is to remove several stumps from my yard and add in some new trees for shade. What are these water boxes?!
So glad this is happening south!! So little shade in my neighborhood