Summer 2020

Virtual Arbor Day

We usually celebrate Arbor Day every year in our communities with tree climbing stations for kids, tree plantings, participation in Earth Day and Arbor Day events, and presentations in schools, garden clubs, and other local organizations. We’ve planted hundreds of trees and given away thousands of saplings at these events over the years. Since we couldn’t celebrate in person this year because of COVID-19, we decided to do it virtually. We created a special Arbor Day page on our website with interesting information, cool links, as well as two visual presentations about trees and soil. We even had a web form that kids could post a question about arboriculture for our arborists which was answered on the page.

We look forward to resuming our Arbor Day celebrations and participating in community events next year. See you then!

Salvation Army Food Relief

Almstead contributed towards the purchase of food pantry items for the Port Chester, NY Salvation Army Covid-19 Emergency Food Relief. The organization feeds over 300 families by providing them with food boxes every week.

Items bought included rice, cereal, canned fruit, milk, tomato sauce and canned chicken.

Pruning Workshop

Almstead master-arborist, Dan Dalton, held a Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop in Bartow-Pell Mansion’s apple orchard in early-March before the stay-at-home orders were given.

If you belong to an organization that would benefit from a professional talk on arboriculture by a certified arborist and expert in the field, please contact us. Our arborists love to share their knowledge of tree, shrub and lawn care with local communities, garden clubs, homeowner organizations, realtors  and other local groups. Availability is limited so please plan early if you'd like us to speak at one of your events. We can even suggest topics that your members may be interested in from a wide selection of topical issues based on the season and group. Contact your local branch for more information.