GroundCrew projects

Real trees.
Real ground.
Real places.

GroundCrew projects turn planting into visible local work — adding shade, habitat, remembrance, and new canopy where people can see it grow.

Some projects begin with one family. Others start with a school, neighborhood, organization, memorial, or community partner. The scale changes. The standard does not.

Explore Project Types Propose a Planting

From one tree to shared canopy. Home sites, memorials, schools, neighborhoods, parks, community spaces, and partner-supported planting.

Project focus

Where GroundCrew can put trees to work.

These are the core kinds of sites and outcomes the program is designed to support. Individual project listings can be added here as projects are approved and documented.

Neighborhood Canopy

Plant along homes, streets, shared areas, and approved neighborhood spaces where additional canopy can improve everyday life.

Local shade + canopy

Schools Shade

School Shade

Add long-term canopy around campuses, gathering spaces, walkways, and outdoor learning areas where students can experience the benefit.

Campus planting

Memorial Legacy

Living Memorials

Create a meaningful tree planting around a person, family, milestone, or story while giving the site a lasting living asset.

Memory with roots

Community Restoration

Support approved parks, shared landscapes, community properties, and local spaces where more trees can strengthen the site over time.

Shared benefit

Habitat Native-first

Habitat Planting

Prioritize locally appropriate trees where food, shelter, ecological connectivity, and native habitat are major project goals.

Plant for wildlife

Partners Sponsored

Partner-Supported Projects

Connect businesses, dealerships, organizations, and sponsors with visible planting work tied to real sites and local stewardship.

Multiply the reach

Project types

Different reasons. The same basic standard.

Projects begin with the site and the reason for planting. From there, GroundCrew narrows what kind of tree, support, and follow-through make sense.

Residential + family

One-tree or small-scale planting for shade, habitat, family milestones, memorials, or long-term property canopy.

School + campus

Planting that combines shade, stewardship, education, and visible long-term improvement to a school or campus environment.

Neighborhood + community

Coordinated planting across approved sites where many individual trees can begin building a stronger local canopy.

Memorial + tribute

Living remembrance projects built around a person, family, group, event, anniversary, or place with personal meaning.

Partner + sponsored

Projects funded or supported by businesses and organizations that want their participation tied to visible local planting.

How projects work

From a good idea to roots in the ground.

A project does not begin with a tree order. It begins by understanding the place, the purpose, the permissions, and what the site can support.

01 / PROPOSE

Bring us the site.

Tell us where you want to plant, who is involved, why the project matters, and what kind of space is available.

02 / REVIEW

Check fit and feasibility.

Review ownership, permissions, utilities, access, sunlight, soil, drainage, available space, and the likely project scale.

03 / PLANT

Match trees to the place.

Choose species and mature sizes that fit the site, then coordinate planting, volunteers, crew support, or project-day logistics.

04 / NURTURE

Keep the project alive.

Assign watering, mulch, monitoring, and establishment responsibilities so the planting has follow-through after project day.

The project standard

A project is successful when the trees keep growing.

GroundCrew is not built around planting-day numbers alone. The real measure is whether trees are matched to the site, installed correctly, and cared for during establishment.

That means fewer shortcuts and more attention to practical details before the first hole is dug.

Site first. Mature size, roots, light, soil, drainage, utilities, access, and conflicts come before appearance.

Native-first. Favor locally appropriate trees when they fit the site and project purpose.

Clear stewardship. Know who will water, monitor, and care for the trees after planting day.

Long view. Judge the project by what the site can become, not only by how it looks the first afternoon.

Propose a project

Have a place that needs trees?

Start with the site. GroundCrew can use the Plant request to gather the basic information needed to understand whether the project is a fit.

Submit a Planting Request Partner With GroundCrew

Useful details to have ready.

The more clearly the site is described, the easier it is to evaluate the next step.

Location: address, city, and the exact part of the property being considered.

Ownership: who owns or manages the site and who can approve planting.

Purpose: shade, habitat, memorial, restoration, education, neighborhood canopy, or another goal.

Scale: whether the idea is one tree, a small cluster, or a larger coordinated planting.

Stewardship: who can water and monitor the trees during establishment.

Put a project in the ground.

Start with one place that could use another good tree.

Home, school, neighborhood, memorial, park, organization, or shared community space — tell us where you want something living to grow.

Propose a Project How the Program Works

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Real trees. Real ground. Real places.