By Derek Lirange The Master Tree Stewards Training Program is offered in the fall at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill as a deep dive course into tree care. The class meets once a week for five weeks in the fall. This year classes will be held on Wednesday evenings in October from [...]
By Derek Lirange I have been looking forward to this training all summer, the opportunity for our Young Adult Foresters (YAFs) to come and experience work at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill. Most of them have visited the garden before but it was an eye-opening experience and opportunity to see the garden [...]
TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, has selected Worcester Tree Initiative (a program of New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill) to participate in TD Tree Days, a community-based program that expands urban forests and green spaces in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. Staff and volunteers of New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill will join local employees of TD Bank to plant 36 native trees and shrubs on West Boylston Drive in Worcester on Friday, October 18, 2019. [...]
By A.J. Elton For the past 15 years, I have been in the professional tree care industry. I have worked for nonprofit organizations, commercial arboriculture companies, and municipalities caring for the health of both private and publicly owned trees in the urban forest. However, I have had an interest in nature for as long as I can remember. As a high school [...]
By Derek Lirange In the third week of New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s Young Adult Foresters (YAF) program, the summer employment program for youth to work as part of the Worcester Tree Initiative (WTI) Department’s team, our cohort had two great training opportunities, shadowing a team of tree climbers working for the [...]
By Derek Lirange This year as part of the Young Adult Forester’s program we are giving our team an opportunity to learn more about the green industry by teaching them about arboriculture and horticulture and letting them shadow professionals in a variety of jobs. This past Monday our team had the opportunity to shadow [...]
