From our village to the global village, we all are working together
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TurftoTrees is a tiny project, with a narrow scope, started by a few individuals in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. If you can, help us to spread its roots through other soils and to stretch its canopy to shade other lands. |
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Tell us what you think
Please contact us at turftotrees.restore@gmail.com with comments, criticisms, corrections, suggested additions, deletions, anything. We want to make this site informative, useful, and as user friendly as possible. We want to support our local ecosystems and the health of our world beginning with our own tiny patches of ground.
Spread the seeds:
We have started this project from the rolling hills of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont, but the tremendous value of the forest - even if that is just one oak in the side yard, and the leaves and twigs below it - can be applied to so many other parts of North America.
If you have other plants lists, in any format, for other eco-regions - Coastal Plain, Blue Ridge, Interior Plateau, etc. - send them so we can add them to this site.
If you are connected to an organization that would find this information useful to its members, please add a link to TurftoTrees on its website. We would like our homeowner to be able to find some version of this blueprint on the website of every native plant society east of Nebraska, on the site of every botanical garden and native plant nursery, to find it on Audubon sites, or university horticulture and forestry sites. Spread as far and wide as possible. There are many wonderful resources for anyone eager to learn how to use native plants in their gardens, or convert parts of their lawns to meadows. A link to TurftoTrees on these sites could help to spread even more options for bringing nature back to our yards and neighborhoods.
If you have other plants lists, in any format, for other eco-regions - Coastal Plain, Blue Ridge, Interior Plateau, etc. - send them so we can add them to this site.
If you are connected to an organization that would find this information useful to its members, please add a link to TurftoTrees on its website. We would like our homeowner to be able to find some version of this blueprint on the website of every native plant society east of Nebraska, on the site of every botanical garden and native plant nursery, to find it on Audubon sites, or university horticulture and forestry sites. Spread as far and wide as possible. There are many wonderful resources for anyone eager to learn how to use native plants in their gardens, or convert parts of their lawns to meadows. A link to TurftoTrees on these sites could help to spread even more options for bringing nature back to our yards and neighborhoods.
This can be for more than just homeowners - help us figure out how
This site can also be useful for landscape designers and contractors to modify, making it their own to use to expand their services while expanding our native trees.
Can we get an appropriate version of it in the hands of the managers of city property and of parks and recreation? Can it help to get Luther and TJ off the riding lawnmowers at state parks and office parks and community colleges? We hope so.
We would be happy to work with anyone who might want to forward these goals, by making a completely separate website, or perhaps templates that could be added to existing sites. One homeowner, one yard at a time is good, but if this blueprint were expanded to commercial and municipal sites....!!
Can we get an appropriate version of it in the hands of the managers of city property and of parks and recreation? Can it help to get Luther and TJ off the riding lawnmowers at state parks and office parks and community colleges? We hope so.
We would be happy to work with anyone who might want to forward these goals, by making a completely separate website, or perhaps templates that could be added to existing sites. One homeowner, one yard at a time is good, but if this blueprint were expanded to commercial and municipal sites....!!