Growing Home Residential Tree Planting Campaign is Growing in the Region

Towson, Md.(April 14, 2008)

Most Aggressive Efforts

Local government and participating nurseries each contribute $5 cost-share for each coupon used to purchase a tree. Last year, the Campaign leveraged $19 of private sector funds for every County dollar invested. Plus citizens plant and maintain their own trees, resulting in future savings of County maintenance of trees if they were to be planted on public lands.

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay recently called the Growing Home Campaign