If you have been waiting for a do good-type of event that will place you in the warm sun with others in your community, then on Saturday the Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, the City of Grand Rapids Forestry Department, and Mayor Bliss invite you to a Arbor Day tree planting unlike any other.
This event is a part of Mayor’s Greening Initiative that seeks to engage our entire community to think of ways to reach our city’s goal of a 40 percent tree canopy.
To help make this goal, each year since 2016, more than 1,000 volunteers have stepped up to work alongside others to plant more than 800 trees in the city. In addition, the city has given away more than 400 saplings with another 100 to be given away on Friday night. (Visit this
link for details on date/time.)
And don’t worry if you have never planted a tree before; Friends will have folks there to assist with a training session before you begin to work alongside others to make our city’s greening goals. They even provide the tools so all you have to do is just show up in clothes to get potentially soiled.
The tree planting begins on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. and will run until noon when, after planting all the trees, you and other volunteers will be invited to a community celebration lunch with the Mayor taking place at Sullivan Field. Please register in advance at
Friends' website.