Arbordaynow - Plant Trees - Make a Difference

If you’ve seen the “National Tree Planting Campaign” video on the arbordaynow homepage, you might be thinking, “Holy cow!  I just saw a ton of trees, shovels, college students, cheering, laughing, food, etc…and it all looked really fun, but what the heck really happens at a Tree Campus USA Tree-Planting event?!” 

Here’s the skinny:

1. College campuses receive up to 100 trees for their students to plant (as a service-learning project) on the campus grounds or in the surrounding community. 
2. Music is blaring in the background, as students, campus faculty and staff, community volunteers, and sometimes even the college president, get together ahead of time for little instruction on how the whole planting thing is done. 
3.  After that, everyone breaks up into groups of 4 or 5 and heads out to start planting their tree(s)!
4. There’s a lot of free food, t-shirts, hats, and plenty of Mother Nature to go around!
5. Oh, and if the campus qualifies, there’s even a cool recognition ceremony by Arbor Day Foundation representatives designating the school as a Tree Campus USA college or university!

So spread the word about the events and sign your campus up today! 

Plant on.