TREE TOGA 14: April 26, 2025
Planting the next generation of trees in Saratoga Springs
🌳 WOW! A HUGE thank you to everyone who braved the rain on April 26 and helped us plant 40 trees! 🌧️
👏 Your energy, enthusiasm, and muddy boots made all the difference, and we’re incredibly grateful for your support. We hope you had a blast, learned a little something about trees, and felt the impact you made firsthand. Let’s keep growing together! 💚🌱
Mark your calendar for next year: April 25, 2026
Grab your family, friends and colleagues, or come by yourself and make new friends. Join the fun with Sustainable Saratoga’s Urban Forestry Project for Tree Toga! Since 2014, we’ve planted a whopping 458 leafy giants all over Saratoga Springs. Mark your calendar – we plant in honor of Arbor Day, on the last Saturday in April.
Here’s how it works: Volunteers assemble to learn the art of bare-root tree planting, belt out our catchy planting anthem (check the video!), and say cheese for the group pic. Then, armed with the expert guidance of our Lead Planters, teams scatter citywide to transform the streets into a green paradise. By lunchtime, we’ve worked our planting magic, and it’s time to toast to success at a local pub.
We need volunteers to help water newly planted trees throughout the season. Sign up below to be a TREE CAREGIVER.
Property owners in the city of Saratoga Springs– Click the TREE HOST link below to request a Tree Toga tree for your front yard for 2026.
Click on the name of a volunteer job below to sign up
Learn the Planting Song and come prepared to sing!
We are looking for front yards to plant trees in. Sign up now to get a free TREE TOGA tree!
Anyone who owns property in the City of Saratoga Springs can request a Tree Toga Tree. If we identify a good spot for a large growing shade tree near the street or in your front yard, out of the way of overhead utility wires, our volunteers will plant a tree during Tree Toga. All you need to do is water it throughout its first few critical years and watch it grow and provide shade and many other benefits for years to come.
Landlords and business owners: this is a great way to improve the look and value of your property, and give the neighborhood all of the environmental and health benefits shade trees provide.
Click on the TREE HOST link above to submit your request.
