Green Blocks is Tacoma Tree Foundation’s neighborhood-specific program that provides community outreach, engagement, and TREES! Our goal is to empower residents by reducing barriers, providing tree care education, and assisting in tree selection, delivery, and planting. TTF brings trees to the areas where they have the most social and environmental impact. The focus of these efforts is centered in neighborhoods where the need for trees, greening, community health, and human well-being are the greatest.

Tacoma Tree Foundation uses American Forest’s Tree Equity Score and the City of Tacoma’s Community Forestry Map to identify which neighborhoods are in most need of this social and environmental service. We recognize that certain communities in the Puget Sound region face significant obstacles to enjoying healthy and broad tree canopy. This is why Green Blocks is designed to support those communities, families, and individuals who would otherwise be unable to plant trees due to financial, physical, and/or social barriers.

Green Blocks: South Tacoma

The Community Tree Program partnership is bringing free street trees to South Tacoma this Fall. Request trees and help us plant with your neighbors!

October 2026

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Green Blocks: Hilltop 2025-2027

We’re bringing free street trees to the Hilltop Neighborhood every spring for three years! Request trees and help us plant with your neighbors!

March 2027

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Trees are critical for Tacoma. They help to reduce and filter stormwater, cool the neighborhood, slow traffic, and help residents create a greener community!

Green Blocks is a fully supported tree-planting program that includes:

  • Tree selection support

  • Permit submittals

  • Delivery of trees and materials

  • Tree planting assistance upon request

How else can I get trees?

Visit our Tree for Tacoma webpage for more resources.

Past Green Blocks Neighborhoods

Visit the legacy sites of Tacoma Tree Foundation’s past Green Blocks Program.

  • In 2022 we piloted our Green Blocks Program in the Tacoma Mall neighborhood. We successfully shared 75 trees with 36 residents with volunteers planting 58 trees.

  • Green Blocks in Parkland has included a local tree share in addition to the traditional tree requests. Thanks to our partnership with Pierce County Parks, we’re able to return year after year!

  • Green Blocks in McKinely was the Community Tree Program’s first Green Blocks and was a total success. We shared 234 trees, reaching 110 households. Our volunteers planted 156 of them!

  • The 3rd annual Pierce County Parks Green Blocks: Parkland included Midland. We successfully shared a 975 trees and reaching 137 households.

  • The 2nd annual Community Tree Program Green Blocks program was in the vibrant Lincoln District. We successfully shared a record breaking 288 trees, reaching 150 households with over 82 volunteers planting almost all trees offered.

  • We had a record-breaking response to the trees in the South End. We shared 303 trees and planting 268 of them!

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