Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm: 2023 Annual Seedling Tree Giveaway to Combat Global Warming
What: To help combat global warming and climate change, we will once again have 310 small seedling trees to give away this summer, starting at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 3rd, and will run until all the trees are given away. This is the 17th year we have given away trees, and our 9100th tree was given away last year!
The free trees are 1–3 foot tall oaks, Kentucky coffee trees, Russian hawthorns, Ohio buckeyes, bald cypress, horse chestnuts, tatarian maples, choke cherries, ginnala maples, honey locusts, lindens and catalpas. There are also some golden currants and red-leafed roses available.
All trees are drought resistant, but of course will grow faster and fix more carbon with extra water.
Look for "Nelly-Belle the Carbon Cart" in front of the house and pick out your trees! You may take as many seedling trees as you can immediately plant in the ground.
Planting instructions will be in a box on the "Nelly-Belle Carbon Cart".
More information about planting your tree may be found by clicking here, and more information about the various tree varieties can be found here.
Please be sure to plant your trees right away and take good care of them. It won't help the climate at all if you plant a tree, and then kill it with neglect. Planting trees helps sequester carbon in the soil and combat global warming. Trees can also make your life much more pleasant and cool!
When: Saturday, June 3rd; Starting at 7:00 a.m., and will run until all the trees are given away.
Please do not call or email us. Just show up on Saturday, June 3rd. Feel free to forward this event posting with whomever you please.
Where: Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm; 4340 13th Street, Boulder, CO, 80304
We are located at 4340 13th Street, one block east of Broadway between Upland and Violet. Look for "Nelly-Belle the Carbon Cart" in front of the house.
More information:
Since 2007, Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm has given away 300-900+ small seedling trees each summer. After viewing “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore's moving film about global warming , we decided we had to do something to help combat climate change. Growing trees to give away seemed like something we could do to help the planet.
We grow the trees from seed on our farm, starting them in the greenhouse and then moving them into bigger pots as they grow. We grow free-seeding varieties which are very hardy in our climate. All our trees are drought resistant, but of course will grow faster and fix more carbon with extra water. However, you should not get one of our seedlings if you are looking for a special clone or non-seeding variety of tree.
Although growing trees fixes carbon and helps combat global warming, it is not a final solution to the problem. The tree eventually dies or is cut down, and burns or rots, returning carbon to the atmosphere. But planting trees does buy us more time to find long term solutions. Please be sure to plant your tree right away, and take good care of it. It won’t help the climate if you plant a tree, and then kill it with neglect.