From acorn to oak: how local students are restoring Sacramento’s oak woodlands 

Small oak seedlings with brightly-colored and bedazzled popsicle stick name tags

Students across the region play an important role in reforesting our native oak habitats by growing oak seedlings through the Tree Foundation’s Seed to Seedling Program. In January, acorn kits were delivered to classrooms, homeschool groups, scout groups, and after school programs all over the region where students cared for them for the next for months. Now that the seedlings are back in our nursery, what happens to them next?

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Growing the next generation of tree stewards

Prepared seed pots sit in a classroom while students learn about the importance of caring for our oaks.

Each year, students across the region play an important role in reforesting our native oak habitats by growing oak seedlings through the Tree Foundation’s Seed to Seedling Program. The program which provides lessons for grades K-6 focuses on the natural and cultural history of Sacramento’s native oaks and the importance of caring for our beloved trees. 

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Roots to success: trees and the learning environment

It’s that time of year when parents and students gear up for the start of the new school year. While the focus is often on new supplies, textbooks, and lesson plans, it’s also important to remember the invaluable role that trees play on a student’s learning experience.

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Students growing oaks for Wine Country

Since Sacramento’s acorn crop was smaller than usual last fall, our harvest volunteers went all the way to the Bay Area. This turn of events proved especially serendipitous when the Wine Country fires broke out several weeks later. Read about how 3rd and 4th graders are growing seedlings to help us reforest these woodlands.

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Seeds for Sonoma County

This year we partnered with our friends at Solano Land Trust to complete a special acorn harvest outside of our normal service area to support the recovery of oak woodlands damaged during this year’s wine country wildfires.

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A fruitful acorn harvest

Beginning in mid-September, Sacramento Tree Foundation staff, interns, and volunteers were busy locating, learning about, and carefully harvesting this years nuts that will become next years seedling trees. Because of everyone’s hard work we met or exceeded most of our goals during this challenging harvesting season.

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