Upcoming events
Our events are FREE! Click on the event to learn more and register!
Green Blocks: South Tacoma Planting Event
Volunteer with us to plant trees in South Tacoma!
SafeTREE Routes Planting Event
Support our grant-funded tree planting project focused on improving walking routes to school in South Tacoma.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Green Tacoma Day with Tacoma Tree Foundation and Parks Tacoma
Bring friends and family to plant trees 18 trees that will provide more canopy coverage and an orchard for the community.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
PSAC & Tac-Pierce Collaborative Network: Meet our Green Space Creating Champions!
How much does our green spaces impact our health? Respiratory, mental, environmental, children’s/seniors health?
Fall Mindfulness Walk
Trees root us in place and in the season. As we move through the season of change, we might experience a sense of loss and some grief for the summer and for the year that draws to a conclusion. We invite you to join us and walk with Sarah Low’s guidance to recognize fall’s beauty, and take comfort in this park’s amazing Doug-firs, Western redcedars, Pacific madrones as the weather turns cooler and the days grow shorter.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Residential Pruning Workshop
Community Tree Program Presents: Residential Pruning Workshop
Have you planted trees on your property within the last 5 years? Now that your trees are becoming established, learn how to keep them healthy and thriving into maturity with essential residential pruning techniques. All experience levels are welcome, join us for classroom instruction as well as hand-on practice to learn how to prune your own residential trees.
Join the City of Tacoma’s Construction Arborist, Shauna Willett and your friends from the Tacoma Tree Foundation for this hands-on workshop.
Funding is provided by the City of Tacoma Urban Forestry Program, whose support makes these educational opportunities possible.
Pierce County Tree Share
Parkland, Spanaway, Midland, and South Hill residents can receive free trees and resources at this tree share.
Nature Explorers: Fall Leaves, Gravity, and Tree ID
Join us to celebrate fall by exploring the relationship between fall leaves, color, and gravity.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Branch Out: Tree Share and Planting Event
Tacoma’s free tree giveaway for right-of-way and back yard trees. Come pick out a tree or help us plant trees for our neighbors.
State of the Urban Forest
Join our 5th Annual State of the Urban Forest to learn how Pierce County is centering trees to address the challenges of climate change and population growth.
Urban Forest Symposium
Join us as we discover ways to inspire collective vision, resilient partnerships, empowered leaders, and diverse solutions for equitable future pathways.
Climate Leadership Cohort Graduatioin
Join the 2026 Climate Leadership Cohort as they present on their CAPstone projects, and learn about how they are each making sure our region is climate resilient.
Tree Stewards Training
Learn about Tacoma’s Unfair Forest, introductory community forestry concepts, and gain skills in communicating with neighbors about their trees and how to engage in neighborhood planting efforts.
Collage Night
Join us for a casual nature-focused collage session during our open hours in our office!
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
Join us at the UW-T Giving Garden to learn the practical pruning techniques you need to know to help your fruit trees live long, healthy, and productive lives.
Green Blocks: Hilltop Tree Share
Visit our Green Blocks: Hilltop Fall Tree Share to take home and plant a street tree for their right-of-way planting strip. Assistance with tree selection, planting guidelines, and tree care will be provided.
Caring for Trees on Private Property
In this presentation, we will hear from certified arborist Andrea Starbird about what she learned while assessing trees in Tacoma's South End and Hilltop neighborhoods as part of a "treesilience" pilot project with Tacoma Tree Foundation and The Nature Conservancy in Washington.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Wapato Hills Walk with Michael Yadrick
Join us for an early fall evening walk and explore the Wapato Hills Open Space with certified arborist Michael Yadrick.
Art and Sensory Exploration: Trees, Shade, and Shadows
Nature Explorers will create their own city blocks and forests with playdough and loose parts, explore shadow and light with building materials and different light sources, create their own “shade tree” to take home with natural materials and air-dry clay, and add to a collaborative tree process art piece!
Tree Captains Training
Take Your Volunteering to the Next Level – Become a Tree Captain!
Nature Explorers Summer Walk with Kiana Boyer
Join us on this Nature Explores Titlow Park Tree and Bird Walk!
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
RainFEST Tree Share
Join your neighbors in welcoming fall and take home a free tree! A variety of tree species will be shared in small containers at this free, walk-up event. Assistance in species selection, planting guidelines, and general tree care will be provided. All are welcome and all resources are free!
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Walking with Trees and Water
Learn from Lowell Wyse and Barry Goldstein about how trees are managed in a downtown landscape and their importance in reducing pollution carried by stormwater runoff.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Greenery Prints with TTF
Learn about key Pacific Northwest tree species and discover historical stories rooted in our local landscape.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Tree Stewards Training
This FREE day-long training with Tacoma Tree Foundation includes information on how to communicate about trees with their neighbors and how to engage in their Tacoma neighborhood in tree planting and utilize or promote different planting programs.
Up to 20 tree stewards will receive the skills they need to take local actions and engage with their communities about sustainability and stewardship.
Snacks, light refreshments and lunch will be provided. If the applications exceed 20 we will prioritize applicants from Tacoma’s Frontline Communities.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Urban Woods Walk
Step outside the library and into the neighborhood for a relaxing, educational evening.
Exploring North End Super Specimens
Join us on this summer walk through University of Puget Sound campus and its surrounding neighborhood. We’ll get to see some remarkable trees and consider the difference between street and campus habitats.
2026 Summer Volunteer Work Party
Join us behind the scenes as we help grow Tacoma’s canopy with site and tree maintenance.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.
FLOCK Workshop
Join Florida book artist and printmaker Rachel Simmons and local artist Yoshi Nakagawa for an afternoon of printmaking inspired by local birds and plants at the Tacoma Public Library’s Community Hub. Prior to the workshop, you can find resources to protect our local ecosystem by visiting the hallway resources fair we’re hosting for PNW Climate Week!
Early Birders and Trees
Flock to Wright Park for an early morning birding walk and celebrate trees and our avian neighbors alongside Tacoma Tree Foundation, Strategic Nature, and community artist, Rachel Simmons.
Open Office Hours
Join us Wednesdays at our office in the Tacoma Community Hub to talk about trees, education, arts, and advocacy. We’ll have free resources and answer any questions you may have about TTF and our work in Greater Tacoma communities.