Spring 2025 Community Planting Day

Whether you're brand new to planting trees or an experienced orchardist, come join us for a day of spring planting! It is always so joyful to plant trees in the spring ground with friends and neighbors. All ages welcome. Everyone will receive a hands-on demo, training, and personal support to ensure you go home with a good understanding of how to plant bare-root trees well in an organic orchard setting. 

We will be planting the last chestnut field at BQ, before moving on to some exciting side quests — which include interplanting trees that grow winter fodder for our sheep (holly, honey locust) and interplanting diverse timber trees that support pollinators and other wildlife (black locust, catalpa, sassafras, tulip tree, hybrid cedar).

• We'll have chestnut biscuits and plenty of water available. Please bring your own lunch, and dinner if you want to stay for dinner!
  
  
• Folks coming from farther away are welcome to camp for the night (plenty of barn and outdoor space available).
  
  
• If you’re a young farmer interested in future paid work with Breadtree, this is a great first step to meet our team and have the opportunity to work together.
   
• For any folks with limited mobility, we'll have truck transportation to the tree planting area. Please reach out if you'd like to coordinate about this.
  
  
• If you're anyone who is seriously interested in agroforestry, and travel to this event is prohibitively expensive, please be in touch. We can offer travel stipends for folks who need them
  

Please RSVP by getting a ticket. We'll send out more info to registered attendees closer to the date. Contact bug@breadtreefarms.com with any questions.

Community members eating lunch and chestnut biscuits in a big circle with rolling hills in the background.

More community members planting trees!