Trinity Bellwoods ADOPT-A-TREE Program (aka AAT)

Join the Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park volunteer Adopt-A-Tree program and help keep the park's new young planted trees alive through their precarious first few years. It's easy – sign up for a specific young tree and from spring to fall make sure it gets five gallons of water each week when we're experiencing drought.

Interested? The Tri-Bell Adopt-A-Tree program always has a few new young trees needing a caregiver – contact the AAT Coordinator through this website and we'll set you up. Alternatively, come out during the spring or fall "park days" and sign up.

The Trinity Bellwoods Park's canopy of shady trees is a big part of its appeal and majesty. The Tri-Bell Adopt-A-Tree program was established in 2005 by Friend of the park Jenna Hofbauer to help the survival of succession trees by watering the young saplings and ensuring the continued renewal of the magnificent tree canopy.

What's Involved:
Five gallons of water a week from May to October, weeding around the tree's base to avoid competition for the water, and a spring and/or fall mulching which helps slow water evaporation, prevents the mowers from damaging the bark and keeps the weeds down. The city's Parks Department has opened a tap on the east side of the park for the AAT program and we (thanks to Fresh on Crawford) have several 3.5 gallon containers kept by the taps. During the summer from July to the end of August there is also a water outlet and water containers on the west side of the park in the grounds of the vibrant Art in The Park program. The Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park organise, in cooperation with City Parks, a mulching day in the spring or fall.

A map of the trees currently in the Tri-Bell AAT program can be found at: (yes it is ridiculously long, but hey, it'll get you there!)
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