Our end-of-year celebration on Monday, November 13, was a truly TREE-mendous success! We joined with an enthusiastic group supporters to share a recap of our 2023 successes and events, while incorporating a fun game of TREE-via (tree trivia). We were thrilled to spend the evening with everyone who attended, contributed, and celebrated with us. A huge thank you to Happsy for supporting this event and to our friends at Dorchester Brewing Company for hosting us.

We look forward to growing more memories with you in 2024.

On Saturday, November 4, we partnered with the newly formed Boston Tree Alliance and Habitat for Humanity Boston for the Alliance’s first tree planting on private residential land. We planted three bare-root trees on private property in Mission Hill. Alongside residents of the new property, we planted a Red Maple, a Green Hawthorne, and a Shadbush. We look forward to planting more trees with the Boston Tree Alliance in 2024!

We partnered with Delta Air Lines to plant 11 Red Maple bare-root trees in Harambee Park on Tuesday, November 14. This addition complements the 49 other trees that SFTT has planted and cares for in the park. A heartfelt thanks to Delta Air Lines and their amazing dozen volunteers for their valuable contribution to the green spaces in our community. Together, we are making strides in cultivating a greener, healthier Boston for all.

On Thursday November 16, our staff worked as a team to plant seven shade trees in a high-impact location at Roxbury Community College alongside Columbus Ave. The Facilities Manager, Shami Qazi, helped us find the perfect location for four Swamp White Oak trees and three Red Maple trees, where they’ll have plenty of room to grow and will shade a very hot sidewalk that is highly used by the students and faculty.

Over the summer Chad Fisher, our Tufts University Tisch GIS Fellow, improved and expanded our Tree Equity maps. He's now been selected as a finalist for 2023 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition.

This year’s theme challenged storytellers to create stories about conserving our planet. Esri and IUCN will announce the 2023 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition WINNERS on December 7, 2023

Join our very own Jerel Ferguson for the Hike4Life: Walk Off the Turkey Hike.  Saturday November 25th, at Franklin Park. The group will meet up at the William J. Devine Golf Clubhouse at 11:00AM. Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the season

For the past 3 months we have been partnering with the Engagement Lab at Emerson College in the Transforming Narratives for Environmental Justice initiative (TNEJ). Join us on December 13 from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm to celebrate the first semester of projects.