TD Bank, through the TD Charitable Foundation, and Alliance for Community Trees (ACTrees) are proud to announce grant winners of the second annual TD Tree Care program. Regreen Springfield is pleased to be one of ten grant awards that were recently announced.
As part of TD Forests, the bank’s environmental initiative to expand urban green spaces and increase protected forest habitat, TD Bank and ACTrees will partner with community organizations for TD Tree Care. Each grant will fund volunteer tree care and maintenance programs in underserved communities in the Northeast, empowering residents to water, prune, and care for trees in five locations from Massachusetts to Delaware.
ReGreen Springfield will receive $4,000 to expand its Citizen Pruners program to care for new trees planted after recent devastating storms and tornadoes. This award will greatly increase the ability of Regreen to grow it’s community-based tree care program, which provides neighborhood residents with training and hands-on experience in tree maintenance.
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The first of two Tree Care Workshops was held at Springfield Technical Community College, on January 23, 2014. Thirty-eight attendees participated in this session, which introduced urban forest concepts to the audience, as well as planting, pruning and tree growth components. The three-hour session is part of an effort to enlist and train volunteer ‘Orchard Tenders’, who will help to care for the two newly established fruit tree orchards in the city. For more information on how you can join this effort, please 
