Take pleasure in FREE Tree Excursions Across the Metropolis with Timber Atlanta

Do you know Timber Atlanta affords some wonderful (and free!) tree excursions of the Atlanta space? They do!

Timber Atlanta, a non-profit group empowered by a neighborhood of volunteers, works laborious to guard and enhance Atlanta’s city forest by planting, conserving, and educating. One of many enjoyable methods they educate others is by internet hosting FREE tree excursions of various elements of the Atlanta space.

These docent-led excursions happen in several elements of Atlanta on choose days. Not solely will you study extra about elements of the town, but in addition about the best way to assist care for our city cover.

There are a number of Tree Tour occasions developing quickly. Once more, the excursions are FREE however registration is required and you can also make a donation whenever you register in the event you’re so inclined. A number of the Tree Excursions developing quickly embody…

• Tree Tour: Atlanta Beltline Arboretum Eastside Path (Sat Mar 01 | 10am-11:30am): See some funky artwork, uncover Tiny Doorways, study some native historical past, and stroll by the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum, a inexperienced hall for folks, wildlife, and transit. This tour gives pretty sunsets from the Beltline as you cross over North Avenue – a bucket record merchandise so as to add to your record! Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Kirkwood, a Dedication to a Wholesome Neighborhood (Solar Mar 02 | 10am-11:30am): Uncover notable historic and horticultural tales of Kirkwood and discover an city forest protect proper right here in Atlanta. Study how one can become involved in planting and pruning bushes in addition to eradicating invasive species in greenspaces throughout Atlanta. Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Atlanta Memorial Park – From Battlefield to City Forest (Solar Mar 09 | 4pm-5:30pm): The biodiversity of bushes and bugs in Atlanta Memorial Park is broad. Docent Mary Lillian, an enthusiastic native plant gardener and neighbor of Atlanta Memorial Park, takes you on a stroll among the many considerable life on this metropolis park, in addition to by tales of its historic previous. The grounds lined on this guided stroll features a portion of the battlefield the place the Accomplice troops didn’t repel advancing Union troopers in July 1864. Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Discovering the Great thing about the Proctor Creek Greenway City Forest (Solar Mar 30 | 10am-12pm): Discover and study concerning the lovely forest and meadow ecology that has been rising alongside the Proctor Creek Greenway. The Proctor Creek Greenway, opened in 2018, is a 2.44 Mile path within the Grove Park that runs by Westside Park and connects Bankhead MARTA station to the Westside Beltline Connector. As a part of the tour, you’ll look at the disturbances that this forest has confronted, the pressures this has placed on the land, and the restoration efforts in place to guard and enhance the forest and this city waterway. Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Well being, Wealth, and Historical past on the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Path (Thu Apr 03 | 6:30pm-8pm): On this tree tour, you’ll discuss the completely different ways in which the outside — and particularly the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum – makes you wholesome. They’ll cowl the well being advantages of the outside, public parks, and inexperienced areas; of sure vegetation and herbs; and even the Fountain of Youth! Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Virginia-Highland Neighborhood Arboretum (Sat Apr 05 | 10am-12pm): Spend your morning discovering the distinctive historical past and structure that exists in Virginia-Highland, certainly one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods and the hub of native favourite watering holes. Touring a Neighborhood Arboretum is a pleasant strategy to study extra concerning the particular bushes and discover the city forest rising alongside our neighborhood streets and parks. Register HERE.

• Sundown Tree Tour: The Secrets and techniques of Chastain Park (Solar Apr 06 | 6pm-8pm): The historical past of Chastain Park is lengthy and winding, from internet hosting public almes homes, a grim jail farm, and being a catalyst of desegregation in metropolis to now being a neighborhood cornerstone of North Atlanta. This city oasis not solely gives a plethora of pollinator gardens and various array of tree species that create a rainbow-like cover within the fall but in addition holds keys to Atlanta’s previous with secrets and techniques written alongside the century outdated stonework. Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Historical past and Change on the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum Eastside Path (Sat Apr 12 | 9am-10:30am): Benefit from the contemporary air on a leisurely stroll with metropolis views because the backdrop of Atlanta’s fashionable linear arboretum. Our docent will share fascinating Atlanta historical past and information you thru the present season of horticulture curiosity on the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum. A strolling tour of the Atlanta Beltline is an effective way to see the evolving arboretum in its present stage and listen to a couple of notable historic and horticultural tales alongside the path on this outside tour. Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Atlanta Beltline Arboretum Southwest Path (Solar Apr 13 | 10am-11:30am): Benefit from the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum with a Timber Atlanta Docent to study concerning the Arboretum and luxuriate in contemporary air, new metropolis views, and interesting Atlanta historical past. This tour explores the Southwest Path with a powerful deal with the horticultural collections and attention-grabbing information about these completely different segments of the Arboretum. Register HERE.

• Tree Tour: Timber, Trails, Historical past, and Structure of Grant Park (Sat Apr 19 | 10am-11:30am): Grant Park is Atlanta’s oldest park and was donated to the Metropolis by Lemuel Pratt Grant in 1882. Guests will get pleasure from studying concerning the park’s bushes and a few of its historic and architectural highlights, together with the Lion Bridge and the Milledge fountain, each just lately restored by the Grant Park Conservancy. Register HERE.

Timber Atlanta hosts enjoyable occasions and volunteer alternatives often all year long. You’ll find their full calendar of occasions HERE.