IN THE GROUND IN DALLAS
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Westmoreland Park in West Oak Cliff, the first urban tiny forest in Texas, and the Pardes Shalom Tiny Forest at Temple Shalom, with a third on the way at St. Mark’s School of Texas.
Planting The Town Green™
Plan-T plants Tiny Forests to heal the land and communities.
Plan-T envisions a future where cities are alive with restored natural systems, where tiny forests are woven into neighborhoods healing the land, cooling the environment and bringing people back into relationship with nature and one another.
In this future, underused urban spaces become thriving ecosystems, communities take pride in caring for the places they live, and cities are no longer separated from nature but function as a part of it, supporting healthier, more connected and resilient lives for all.
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ONE PLANTING DAY
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At Temple Shalom, eighteen hundred square feet of former pecan orchard went in on a single day, in a U around an outdoor classroom the children use.
RETURNED PER DOLLAR
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The U.S. Forest Service puts the return of urban tree cover at $2.70 for every dollar spent, in cooler air, cleaner water, and lower energy bills.
THE MIYAWAKI METHOD
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Three to five native saplings per square meter, all four layers in on the same day. Packed that close, a young wood grows about ten times faster than a conventional planting.
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Air quality
Urban forests intercept and absorb pollution straight out of the atmosphere. A dense canopy is a filter nobody has to change, working on the block where people are actually breathing.
Heat reduction
Concrete keeps the heat long after the sun has gone. Green space offsets the urban heat island, and shade turns a street you hurry across into one you can stand on.
Water quality
One hundred mature trees catch about 250,000 gallons of rainwater a year, which lowers the flood risk and holds the soil in place instead of letting it wash off.
Wildlife
Four layers of native planting bring back what the concrete pushed out. The birds arrive first, then the pollinators, then everything that follows them in.
Quality of life
Trees relieve what is sometimes called nature deficit disorder. Their beauty lifts the mood of a street, and access to green space is tied to better mental and physical health.
Community unity
Trees become landmarks, and landmarks give a neighborhood a new identity. A forest is one thing the whole block built together, and it is what they gather under afterwards.
Wherever you start, you reach a forest in four steps.
The city becomes the forest through people. Pick the path that fits, and follow it all the way to a square meter in the ground.
Give
Sponsor a square meter and we plant, map, and tend your own patch of native forest.
Schools
Turn a schoolyard into a living classroom where students plant and study a real forest.
Volunteer
Join a community planting day, get your hands in the soil, and earn service hours.
Companies
Green your campus or sponsor a neighborhood forest as measurable, local climate action.
Where can a tiny
forest go?
Schoolyards, church lots, campuses, parks, and streets.
How do we get one?
Sponsor, host, or volunteer, and we handle the rest.
How long until it
runs itself?
About three years of care, then it needs no irrigation.
What is a Miyawaki forest?
A fast native woodland on a plot as small as a few parking spaces.
How is it different
from street trees?
Dense native planting in four layers, not trees along a curb.
Why does Dallas-Fort
Worth need this?
Lost canopy, rising heat, neighborhoods short on green.
Stories from the ground.
Tiny forests, the Miyawaki method, and what is growing across Dallas.
Give your street its forest back.
Every dollar goes into soil, native saplings, and the hands that plant them.