Upcoming events
Our events are FREE! Click on the event to learn more and register!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Collage Night
Join us for a casual nature-focused collage session during our open hours in our office!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seeds in the Sun: Family-friendly Walk
Join us this summer for a family-friendly walk where we learn about the principles of honorable harvest and identifying what plants are ready for harvest.
Green Blocks: South Tacoma and SafeTREE Routes to School Tree Requests Open!
We’re bringing street trees to the South Tacoma neighborhood in October 2026. Residents in the designated project area of South Tacoma can sign up to receive free trees for their RIGHT-OF-WAY (ROW), along with other supporting services.
Green Blocks: South Tacoma project area falls within Very High to High Tree Planting Priority census blocks. Planting trees in these areas helps to manage stormwater pollution, bolster community resilience, improve public health outcomes, and enhance overall quality of life.
SafeTREE Routes to School — The City of Tacoma is partnering with Tacoma Tree Foundation on a grant-funded tree planting project focused on improving walking routes to school in select neighborhoods. By planting trees along suggested Safe Routes to School (SRTS) walking routes, the project aims to increase tree canopy near schools, improve neighborhood safety, and create healthier, cooler places for students and families to walk, bike, and roll to school and around their neighborhoods!
Visit our program website to request trees until August 17th.
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.
The air we breathe with Ailene Ettinger
The air we breathe is essential to living a healthy life. This is why knowing about our neighborhood’s air quality is important. Join us as we learn more from Dr. Ailene Ettinger’s air quality research across Tacoma. Find out how her research came to be, which are Tacoma’s most impacted neighborhoods, and what we can do to mitigate air pollution.
Wonders of Wapato Hills
In this outdoor presentation with local botanist, Dr. Romey Haberle, we’ll walk up the trail to the summit of Wapato Hills.
Tree Stewards - Technical Training
Get the hands-on skills you need to plant and care for healthy trees in your yard or neighborhood.
Canopy Quest Launch Game Night
Join us for the official launch of Canopy Quest: Tacoma Tree Foundation’s in-house designed and produced board game! Come celebrate, play, watch, and learn about how trees get chosen for our urban spaces and their relationship to utilities and human-made structures.