Avoiding the Sow and Go with Groundwork Bridgeport

1. Avoiding the
Sow and Go
with
Groundwork
Bridgeport
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Groundwork Bridgeport
● Founded in 2008
● Bridgeport, Connecticut
○ Small, dense, post-industrial city
● Programs
○ Place based service-learning
program - HS youth
○ Stewardship Programs
○ Outdoor experiences
● Impact
○ The main entity for environmental
improvements and tree planting in
the city

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Resources
● Urban Resource
Institute
○ Yale
● TreePlotter™ Software
○ Easy inventory
○ Communication
tools
● National Partners
○ NatureQuant
NatureScore for the city
By NatureQuant - naturequant.com

4. 4
Resources
● Grants
○ Connecticut Urban
Forest Council
○ Connecticut
Department of Energy
and Environmental
Protection
● Urban Resource
Institute
○ Best practices
● TreePlotter™ Software
○ Easy inventory
○ Communication tools

5. 5
Volunteers
● Planting = Easy
○ Over 100 trees in 2022
● Maintenance = Hard
○ Establishment!
○ Visits at 1, 2, and 5 years
● GROWING
○ 6 neighborhoods to
inventory

6. Leveraging Their
Inventory
● Current
○ Propose tree sites to the city
○ Track trees planted
○ Track environmental benefits
● Future
○ Plantable spaces
○ Inventory all public trees in 6
neighborhoods
○ Track the trees planted by the
city in TreePlotter
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2023!
● Adopt-a-Tree Program
○ Give volunteers
responsibility for a
single tree
● New volunteer Tree
Corps
○ Master gardeners
● Funding

8. Questions?
Come visit us at our Booth
Or reach out to Peter Leduc at
pleduc@groundworkbridgeport.org
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