Schedule Tree Care in Your Community

• “Mulching Par­ty” events focus on weed­ing and mulching tree pits, pick­ing up lit­ter, and oth­er gen­er­al beau­ti­fi­ca­tion activ­i­ties. All are wel­come to attend Mulching Par­ty events.
• “Prun­ing Work­shops” are focused sole­ly on prun­ing trees and are exclu­sive to grad­u­ates of our Tree Ten­ders pro­gram.
• “For­est Restora­tion Events” are focused on restor­ing forest­ed green spaces in com­mu­ni­ties through­out Pitts­burgh. Activ­i­ties include remov­ing inva­sive species, pick­ing up lit­ter or dumped refuse, and car­ing for young or new­ly plant­ed trees.

Tree Pitts­burgh reserves Tues­day and Thurs­day evenings from 5:00–8:00 p.m. as well as Sat­ur­day morn­ings from 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. for Mulching Par­ty or Prun­ing Work­shop events. Excep­tions can be made to accom­mo­date reli­gious obser­va­tions or oth­er exten­u­at­ing circumstances.

Tree Pitts­burgh requires at least 5 peo­ple to be signed up for an event in order for us to par­tic­i­pate. We will help pro­mote the event via our web­site and social media, but ulti­mate­ly it is up to you to ensure that at least 5 mem­bers of your com­mu­ni­ty are reg­is­tered to participate.

When you part­ner with Tree Pitts­burgh to care for your neigh­bor­hood trees, we can pro­vide the following:

• Free mulch!
• Tools, gloves, safe­ty vests, and oth­er use­ful materials.
• Expert staff with expe­ri­ence lead­ing vol­un­teers and edu­cat­ing the pub­lic about trees.
• Pro­mo­tion of the event via social media, e‑newsletter, events cal­en­dar, etc.
• Clear­ance of vol­un­teer activ­i­ties with the City of Pittsburgh’s Legal Department.

In the City of Pitts­burgh, it is ille­gal for cit­i­zens to prune pub­lic trees with­out a per­mit. Tree Pitts­burgh has a per­mit to prune pub­lic trees which cov­ers our vol­un­teers as long as one of our ISA Cer­ti­fied Arborists is present to super­vise the pruning.

All of Tree Pittsburgh’s open vol­un­teer events are list­ed on our event calendar.

Tree Pitts­burgh can help facil­i­tate com­mu­ni­ca­tion between Tree Ten­ders. Con­tact us at info@treepittsburgh.org to get con­nect­ed to your fel­low neigh­bor­hood Tree Tenders.

Each tree should be thor­ough­ly weed­ed and mulched at least once between March and Octo­ber (though main­te­nance weed­ing should be done as per­sis­tent­ly as possible).

Depend­ing on how many trees there are and how many vol­un­teers can be recruit­ed, this may be accom­plished in one event or spread over sev­er­al events and sev­er­al months.

Prun­ing trees once per year dur­ing the win­ter months is ide­al, although this can be flex­i­ble depend­ing on tree species and health. Prun­ing Work­shops should be sched­uled with these fac­tors in mind.

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