T
REE PLANTING AT HAMAATSA
Offset your carbon footprint
Plant a tree at Hamaatsa
10.17.10
At Hamaatsa, there was once a mature forest on these aboriginal lands. Large scatterings of petrified wood are a testament to the trees that once thrived here. Hamaatsa lies within an "Area of Critical Environmental Concern", where there are endangered grasses and plants throughout the 320 environmentally protected property.
With the help and generosity of many folks, coming alongside our mission for restoring land and people, we are joyfully creating a food forest, wildlife habitats and restoring the ancient watershed that runs through Hamaatsa: regenerating these sacred lands back to health and wholeness once again.
Fall Tree Planting Event
HAMAATSA
Sunday, October 17, 2010
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
This all day celebrative gathering, will feature planting trees to create screens and hedges in our food forest plus other areas of reforestation on the aboriginal lands of Hamaatsa. The morning will begin with an opening ceremony followed by a field tour with founding director, Larry Littlebird. We will then spend the rest of the day planting trees and at mid-day, share a harvest potluck lunch together at the Shepherd's House.
Ways you can participate
1. Locally, participate in this reforestation event in the heart of New Mexico's native lands! Make a tree donation and join us on October 17 to plant the tree yourself.
Make a tree donation and join us on October 17 to plant the tree yourself.2. If you are unable to attend in person, you can make a tree donation and we will plant the tree for you!
Reservations Required to Attend the Event
Attendance capacity for this event is 40 people, so please reserve your space!
For reservations call or email: (505)899-6028 /littlebird@hamaatsa.org
DID YOU KNOW?
Offsetting your carbon footprint (created with our cars, air travel, industry and energy) through reforestation efforts is one of the cheapest, most effective means of drawing CO2 from the atmosphere.
An average healthy tree stores about 13 pounds of carbon annually.
Planting one tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over it's normal lifetime.
Donate a Tree!
Donations for trees are gratefully appreciated to fulfill our "Fall Tree Planting" goal of 40 trees! Suggested donation for planting one tree (4' to 5' height): $50 - $75.
Secure online donations for trees can be made through PayPal
You can also mail in your "tree" donation. Click here to download tree donation form.
Fall Tree Planting Goal: 40 Trees!
(10) Black Locust
(10) Austrian Pines
(8) Wild Plums
(2) Black Walnut
(2) Net Leaf Hackberry
(1) Pear
(1) Peach
(4) Apple
(1) Chokecherry
(1) Crab Apple
Our Commitment to Planting Local Heritage Trees
As part of our commitment toward restoring our local environment, economy and food system, we purchase only local heritage trees when possible through Plants of the Southwest (Santa Fe and Albuquerque) and Tooley's Trees (Truchas, NM). Both places use locally grown stock methods and carefully selected plants to match climate and soil types for this region. Some of these local varieties have almost become extinct. "Plants of the Southwest" is graciously supporting Hamaatsa through an ongoing discount for all our plant and tree purchases.
Hamaatsa's emerging food forest and edible landscape. See more photos.
A Tree!
