Saturday, April 20 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Join us for our first tree care event of 2024 at Harambee Park. We will be looking after the 50+ young trees that we planted in prior years. Activities include mulching, weeding, checking the tree stakes, and collecting litter around the park. All are welcome and encouraged to come!

Join us at More Than Words on the 22nd, Urban Farming Institute on the 23rd, or Frugal Bookstore on the 24th for an evening with Dr. Christine Carmichael, author of “Racist Roots: How Racism Has Affected Trees and People in Our Cities - and What We Can Do About It,” to discuss racism and how it has affected our cities’ urban trees and green spaces.

Thursday, April 25 from 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Join artist Jane D. Marsching for an evening of movement, writing, and drawing in conversation with one of our native trees: Black Cherry. Participants will process and reflect through drawing with ink made from Black Cherry. 

Saturday, April 27 from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Slow down, unplug and awaken your senses on a guided nature therapy experience at Franklin Park, led by certified forest therapy guide Tam Willey.

Saturday, April 27 from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Join us while we celebrate our Community Tree Walks project at Edgewater Food Forest. 

Saturday, April 27 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Join us at Martin’s Park where local author Kari Percival will read her book How to Say Hello to a Worm. The story time will be followed by a hands-on activity for kids and adults!

Speak for the Trees is offering Boston community groups, schools, and nonprofits free seedlings to distribute to their communities.

You can still participate in Arbor Week! We at Speak for the Trees invite you to share how trees are significant to you or to your community through art. We are seeking stories or pieces or art that allow us to see trees through your eyes. 

We are proud to announce that we have received a grant from the Boston Tree Alliance to support our work to plant trees on privately owned property in the Tree Alliance’s priority neighborhoods. This project will complement our NeighborWoods yard-tree program. 

The Boston Tree Alliance is a coalition of nonprofits, community-based organizations, and others convened by Mass Audubon under the direction of the City of Boston. These groups work collaboratively to grow Boston’s urban forest with a focus on increasing equity. Speak for the Trees is a member of the Tree Alliance and now proud a grantee. 

Speak for the Trees has partnered with Emerson College during the Spring semester in the course “Behavioral Economics,” where students propose interventions that will change people’s behavior relating to urban trees. There will be an end-of-semester event at Franklin Park Zoo on Friday, April 19, from 12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. where we will explore ways that storytelling can inspire us toward environmental action. Look through the eyes of animals as they navigate our shared environment, explore how human stories can deepen our care for trees, and help envision what environmental justice can look like in Boston. Featuring family-friendly live performances, interactive discussions and activities, a picnic lunch, and more! Registration includes free admission to explore the Zoo following the event. Be sure to register early, as tickets are limited.

Our Teen Urban Tree Corps School Year participants are excited to share our Second Teen Tree Summit! Join us at the Arnold Arboretum on Saturday, June 15th, from 11 am - 3 pm to celebrate the work of environmental justice organizations providing job and educational opportunities to Boston youth. Activities will include youth-led hands-on workshops, guest speakers, tabling by various organizations and universities, and a raffle. Lunch will also be provided. If you are interested in attending or participating in the event, RSVP using the following link: Teen Summit RSVP.

Every month Big Dipper Hospitality Group selects a “Round Up” partner.  When people check out they can "round up" their transaction to the nearest whole dollar and the change gets donated to a charitable organization.  This year Big Dipper Hospitality Group is selecting partners through a DEI lens as well as selecting organizations with ties to the month being celebrated. We are proud to have been selected for April for the work we do nurturing the earth work and our focus on social action and equity. Support our work today by visiting one of their restaurants in this group in Boston, Brookline, or Cambridge, including State Park and Mamaleh's Delicatessen.

For every referral received by their clients, Blade of Grass will be making a donation to Speak for the Trees to express gratitude, do good, and contribute to the tree plantings in Boston. Blade of Grass offers a variety of services including award-winning landscape design, installation, and maintenance throughout Boston and the Boston Metro West area. We’re proud to share in their passion for urban nature and beauty. Together, we look forward to volunteering and nurturing trees in the years ahead.

We are thrilled to be partnering with Re-Fleece Market, a company that believes in keeping things longer, fixing and repairing items, buying used when possible, and reusing the materials in an item at the end of its useful life. Re-Fleece is creating a less disposable world, embedded in a healthy economy that thrives on re-use. Sellers are provided the opportunity to donate a portion of the sale of their items to an affiliated environmental nonprofit organization, including Speak for the Trees. So clean out your closet today and help us grow Boston’s urban forest.

Towns and cities across the Commonwealth are working BOTH to encourage green development of housing and energy and ALSO to avert the climate emergency. Learn how to make development climate friendly and “green” by preserving trees’ crucial eco-services in urban areas and in wild forests. Two scientists and three community advocates will explain how natural climate solutions can work together with the development Massachusetts needs.