Come See the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps in Action This April!

Celebrate Earth Day with NTCC

Celebrate Nashville’s Environment With Us!

Creating awareness about canopy care is one of the most important ways to keep our city green! To help spread the message, the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps team will have a booth at two events in April 2024: Nashville’s Earth Day festival on Saturdafy, April 20th, and Honeytree Meadery’s Arbor Day celebration on Sunday, April 28th. Come have a conversation with us and join your Nashville neighbors in honoring our environment and its produce! 

Nashville Earth Day Festival 2024, Saturday, April 20th

This is NTCC’s first time having a booth at a big event like Nashville Earth Day, so we are very excited to share this news and have an opportunity to visit with attendees! Members of our board, including Councilmember at Large Burkley Allen, will be hosting the booth to answer your questions about tree maintenance and canopy care, as well as to learn about your concerns as residents. We will be holding a poll for visitors to vote for their top three tree-related policy priorities so that we can advocate for these on your behalf! The six causes to rank are:

• Regulating clearcutting

• Increasing tree density

• Preserving the Highland Rim trees

• Preserving heritage trees

• Supporting tree code enforcement

• Protecting steep slopes 

In addition to learning about your environmental concerns, we will also be holding a raffle for a consultation with NTCC board members Michael Davie and Bo Arrington. A $10 minimum donation to the Earth Day event makes visitors eligible for the drawing. Also, we’ll have Nashville Tree Conservation Corps T-shirts, sweatshirts, and bandanas for sale if you’d like to represent our organization all spring long and beyond!

The Nashville Earth Day celebration gathers local nature advocacy organizations, food providers, sustainable businesses, and government agencies to connect with Nashville residents for a day of fun and eco-information in Centennial Park. Proceeds from the Earth Day festival will be donated to various environmental initiatives that support nature in many ways across Nashville. The free event will be held on Saturday, April 20th from 11AM to 5PM. Check out Nashville Earth Day’s official website for details on the event’s activities and attractions, and browse social media tags @earthdaynash and #earthdaynash2024 to see what people are saying in anticipation!

Honeytree Meadery, Sunday, April 28th

The weekend following the Earth Day festival, members of the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps team will be at Honeytree Meadery’s Arbor Day event! Honeytree Meadery is Nashville's premier apiary (bee-keepery) and meadery (makers of honey wine). The honey they cultivate in their hives, as well as honey sourced through partnerships with other local apiaries, is used to make the sweet alcoholic beverage in a range of flavors. Their work is grounded in intentional stewardship (bees are essential for area-wide environmental health as one of nature's main pollinators) and engagement with the community to provide a high-quality product that also highlights our everyday connections to the natural environment.

The “Birch and Poplar” event is an Arbor Day celebration of trees, which rely on pollinators like bees and provide ecosystem services that bees (as well as all other wildlife and humans!) depend on for a comfortable, inhabitable environment. From noon to 6PM on Sunday, April 28th, Honeytree Meadery (located at 918 Woodland Street) will hold a maker's market to showcase local craftspeople's work and raise awareness about the importance of trees and conservation.

Following the daytime market, at 8PM, the Meadery will screen the documentary Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees. This film, featuring the noted conservationist and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger, explores the beautiful forests of the northern hemisphere to explain the science and tell the history of these ancient ecosystems and their trees. The documentary outlines the interconnectedness of living environments and their inhabitants in the wilderness and in relation to our human settlements. As filmmaker Jeff McKay notes, our increasingly urban populations will be making impactful managerial and policy-related decisions about rural environments, both agricultural and wild, so it’s essential that urban people understand these foundational ecological systems and our own roles within them.

Like Nashville’s Earth Day, proceeds from the “Birch and Poplar” event will also go to local conservation projects! At NTCC’s booth, members of our team will be on hand to answer questions and hear your concerns about our local canopy; we’ll be holding our priorities poll and arborist consultation raffle here as well! 

We’re thrilled to participate in these events as an opportunity to support environmental care in and around Nashville! You, too, can make an impact on our city’s canopy by planting trees (browse our tree sale for a good deal on healthy saplings!) or helping us plant across Nashville by volunteering your time to lend a hand. And if you haven’t already, sign up for our newsletter for regular updates on tree care tips and local canopy news!

Come visit us, say hey, and pick up a shirt, sweatshirt, or bandana!