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Home Programs & Services Greening

People planting street trees

Greening

Our greening programs and services contribute to the vitality of San Francisco’s urban forest.  We make it easy for individuals, neighborhood groups and schools throughout San Francisco to get street trees and sidewalk gardens, and we ensure that small, young street trees grow into healthy, mature ones.

Free Trees for San Francisco

Friends of the Urban Forest organizes communities to plants street trees in San Francisco, and manages related tasks such as the removal of concrete to prepare planting sites. Get more information.

Tree Replacement

FUF plants street trees in pre-existing tree basins in which the previous tree has died. (more…)

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New street tree in Potrero Hill, June 2009

Sidewalk Gardening

FUF helps property owners install sidewalk gardens around street trees or in locations in which street trees cannot be planted. (more…)

Early Tree Care

Our staff and volunteer crews make scheduled “house calls” to provide care to street trees during the first three years after they’re planted. (more…)

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Pruning a Gingko in Bernal Heights, November 2006.

Emergency Tree Care

When property owners notify us that street trees we’ve planted require emergency care, we respond. (more…)


Want information about planting a tree on your own? We provide guidance here.

Want information about caring for your own tree? We provide guidance here.

Interested in volunteering to plant or care for street trees? See our Volunteer page to find out how you can help.

Programs & Services

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    • Free Trees for San Francisco
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Donate today and help us continue to increase the number of trees we plant!

Our tree came today and what a beauty! Thank you for your hard work and getting us what we wanted. We are all very excited to watch the beauty of our tree brighten the view for all San Francisco residents and visitors. Thanks again, you are so easy to work with."
— Darren Des Roches

We just can't say THANK YOU enough! This has been such a life-changing, street-transforming, neighborhood-lifting experience."
— Lori Hébert & Thaddeus Homan

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