Spring/Summer 2016

Almstead Around Town

2016 Arbor Day Celebrations

 

Almstead participated in several events in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day.

 

In New Jersey, Branch Manager, Ryan Duff and arborist Kevin Tode set up booths and junior tree climbing stations at the Ridgewood Earth Day Fair and the Spring Fest at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy. They handed out free saplings and Almstead water bottles, pens, and re-useable grocery bags. Kevin also gave a talk about trees and planted a Kousa dogwood at Roosevelt School in Hawthorne.

 

In Connecticut, Gary Norman, Branch Manager and Michael Almstead, Vice President, joined students, teachers and elected officials, including the Mayor of Norwalk, Harry Rilling, for Earth Day celebrations and to plant a tree in front of Marvin Elementary School. Gary, Michael, and Ken Almstead, CEO, also exhibited at the popular Connecticut Tree Festival in Cranbury Park, Norwalk and thrilled kids with a junior arborist tree climbing station. Arborist, Isaac Taylor, planted a tree and handed out Persimmon and Colorado spruce saplings to students at the New Canaan Nature Center Preschool and set up a tree climbing station at “Down on the Farm” at Darien Nature Center.

 

Arborist Patrick McVey from our Hawthorne, NY office gave a show-and-tell presentation on how trees benefit our environment to 1st and 2nd Grade students at Transfiguration School in Tarrytown.

 

In our New Rochelle, NY office, arborist Dan Dalton planted a pink dogwood tree at the Bartlow-Pell Mansion while arborist, Dan Groves, set up a table at the Arbor Day Fest at the Queens Botanical Gardens. Arborist Jeff Delaune and Michael Almstead planted an 8-foot River Birch tree in Crawford Park, Rye Brook. Arborist, Michael Marks, Michael Almstead and several of the Almstead crew worked with an Eastchester Girl Scouts Troop to plant and transplant trees in the Magic Treeture Forest Nursery. Joining them were Judith Blau, creator of Treetures and the Treetures character, Steward. Almstead also sponsored the Junior Arborist Station at Wave Hill Public Garden in the Bronx.

 

For more, please visit our 2016 Arbor Day Events page.

(Above) Our junior climbing stations are a big hit with kids and their parents at our Arbor Day events. (Below) Michael Almstead (VP) with arborist Michael Marks, Treeture Character Steward, and Judith Blau, Creator of Treetures.

LOCATIONS:

 

Lower Westchester County, NY and New York City

58 Beechwood Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801

914-576-0193

 

Upper Westchester (North of I-287)

15 Broadway, Hawthorne, NY 10532

914-741-1510

 

Fairfield County, Connecticut

80 Lincoln Avenue, Stamford CT 06902

203-348-4111

 

Bergen & Passaic Counties, NJ

504 High Mountain Road, North Haledon, NJ 07508

973-636-6711

 

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