We Celebrate Trees!

Despite this tough economy, FPW and the City of Berkeley planted 32 Chinese Pistache trees along the historic parkway on November 6, 2010 with the generous aid of The Berkeley Project, a group of student volunteers from UC Berkeley; expertly guided by City staff from Forestry and Public Works. 


While we lacked sufficient funds for the installation of a permanent irrigation system our Chancellor’s Fund award afforded us the ability to contract with Peralta Service Corporation,
a non-profit group headquartered in Oakland, California, to provide weekly watering service for the first two years until the young trees are sufficiently mature to rely solely on rainfall.

Next up in our planting plan for 2011: FPW, City staff and Cal Greek Service volunteers will plant 22 more trees (Coast Live Oaks, Scarlet Oaks and Japanese Zelkova) in the Channing Circle and two neighboring medians in late Spring. By Summer we will have planted 54 trees along Piedmont Way, Frederick Law Olmsted’s first residential parkway in the nation.

The ultimate planting phase for Piedmont Way includes planting an understory of California natives. However, the City of Berkeley wisely requires us to have a Long-Term-Maintenance Endowment Fund in place before we undertake the labor intensive planting. 



If you or someone you know would like to be play a crucial role in the realization of the final phase of this significant shovel-ready project please contact us to discuss the possibilities.



"The symbolism and significance of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis." - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance