In response to over 600 street trees being planted in Greenpoint over five years, the Greenpoint Tree Corps is spearheading a summer Adopt-a-Tree program for volunteers to help get involved with maintaining the community’s new urban forestry.

For Sarah Balistreri and Acacia Thompson, both citizen pruners who started Greenpoint Tree Corps to connect volunteers with opportunities to maintain local street trees, the…

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  1. Thank you for doing this. I began taking care of the trees on Engert Ave between Russell St and N. Henry St in 1970. I have been asking where I get involved with all of this and here you are. May I say, during my life, I have planted over 5,000 trees from Maine to California and places in between and I have created a Nature Preserve in the forest of Michigan where I planted over 400 different varieties of Japanese Maple trees that took me over 20 years to discover and plant.

    1. Wow, incredible! We’d love to have you join the corps and we still have a handful of watering kits to give away. All the info is on our website.

  2. Good morning Sarah B. Thank you and I currently have about 100 different varieties of Japanese Maple trees in a friends yard that I water twice a week. So I am always in Greenpoint. I am currently living in Ridgewood but no problem for me to get to Greenpoint. I have my own watering cans but if there is something special I need then I will take the watering kit. I am currently finishing up my EPIC two volume set of books about Japanese Maple Leaves. Over the decades, I have taken well over 200,000 photos of the Japanese Maple trees and leaves of the three growing seasons. So my books will have the JM’s I’ve planted in my Nature Preserve of all three growing seasons. My books have already been approved to be sold at Esveld Nursery in Holland. It is one of the oldest Nurseries in Europe and opened in 1865. So I am very happy about this.
    Thank you Sarah B and let me know what I need to do next.
    Sincerely
    John Altyn

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