Choose your tree.
Start with a tree suited to your region, site, and planting goals.
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Do your part. Plant a tree.
Plant at home. Plant in someone's honor. Join a community project. Start with one tree and help something living take root.
What GroundCrew does
Make planting easier to start—and easier to keep alive.
GroundCrew connects practical planting guidance with living remembrance, community projects, and a simple belief: one tree is enough to begin.
Why Trees
Understand the impact.
See how trees support shade, habitat, healthier neighborhoods, and long-term local canopy.
Why trees matter → The ProgramKnow what happens next.
Learn how GroundCrew approaches tree selection, site planning, planting, and first-year care.
How the program works → About GroundCrewSee where the mission came from.
Learn how a personal act of remembrance grew into a broader commitment to planting and care.
About GroundCrew →How it works
Four practical steps.
Choose the tree, check the site, put it in the ground, then care for what you planted.
Check the site.
Consider sunlight, soil, available space, and utilities before planting.
Put it in the ground.
Follow the planting guidance yourself or choose hands-on planting support.
Help it establish.
Use practical first-year care guidance after planting day.
Our story
One tree started as something personal.
When Dawne passed, Joey and the boys planted a tree in remembrance. What began as a family act became an invitation for other people to plant something meaningful too.
Today, GroundCrew is about turning that idea outward—toward families, neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and communities that want to put something living in the ground.
What started as a living tribute became an invitation: do your part. Plant a tree.
Explore
Find your way into the mission.
Plant, learn, read, partner, or join a project—there is more than one way to take part.
Stories
Stories from the ground.
Read the people, reasons, and places behind the trees.
Read stories → PartnersPlant with GroundCrew.
Bring trees into a business, school, organization, or local community.
Become a partner → Get InvolvedShow up and help.
Plant, volunteer, support a project, or help bring more people into the work.
Ways to help → ContactTalk with GroundCrew.
Have a planting idea, partnership question, or community opportunity? Start here.
Contact us →Start with what matters to you
Three ways to put down roots.
Plant for the future.
Plant at home and create future shade, habitat, and canopy.
Plant a tree →
Give a memory roots.
Create a living tribute for someone whose story you want to keep growing.
Create a memorial →
Grow local canopy.
Bring planting to neighborhoods, schools, parks, and community spaces.
Explore projects →One tree is enough to begin
Put one tree in the ground.
Start with one place, one reason, and one practical next step.