2026 Spring Tree Sale Report

Every year we offer the Spring Tree & Shrub Sale to our residents and surrounding communities, and rotate around 50 various species of shrubs, trees, berries, and fruit for conservation purposes and home farms & gardens. It is simple in concept but complex in reality, we do our best to provide a consistent service and resources to the community, and are navigating many funding and other obstacles. Thanks to all for your participation and patience!

Special thanks:

• All the Amazing WCCD staff who put their hearts into the work.
• Thanks the donor who continues to support the Milkweed Giveaway and funded this year's Oaks Are Important discount campaign, which provided $5,000 in discounts for oaks in the pre-sale and trees that will be given away at the Native Plant Expo on June 6!
• Washtenaw Farm Council grounds for being our consistent venue. Check out their other events!
• MACD for getting the beautiful Pollinator T-shirt fundraiser organized!
• All the nurseries we source from, who continue to provide some high quality big seedlings this year. And some tiny blueberries unfortunately.

Thanks to our partners who joined during our distribution to provide expert advise and resources:

• Legacy Land Conservancy 
• Davey Tree Experts
• TreeTown Urban Forestry Team - Our 2025 Tree Conservationists of the Year awardees

We've been so fortunate to have so many volunteers returning each year to bring their energies and efforts to making the event operations run smoothly.  Volunteers help with set-up, organizing the 50+ species/products, packing the 873+ orders, and getting the orders to the customers at the pick-up distribution. 

We're always glad for more volunteers if you're interested. Volunteers get various bonuses including free shirts at the Native Plant Expo, early access to sales, and special events.

We've been recognizing and providing more support to many local partners providing tree distributions and giveaways sourcing from our tree distribution.  Notably, we want to thank all those who've used the resources and time for Earth Day, Arbor Day, and other tree giveaways:

• Project RED (Rural Education Days) - 2000 white pine seedlings were donated by the WCCD and went home with as many 3rd graders!
• City of Ann Arbor - Office of Sustainability & Innovations: Tree Giveaway has continued sourcing trees and giving to the community. They gave away 1,000 seedlings this year, and have given away over 12,151 trees!
• Saline Garden Club - Returning from a long hiatus, they distributed 1,100 white pine seedlings to local saline students & families.
• Chelsea Area Garden Club - For many years now, they've been sourcing trees and providing to the community, over 300 seedlings given away this year!
• Floyd Street Toledo Tree Nursery - Coming all the way from Ohio, they got 400 to grow and distribute at their urban nursery.
• Municipal Giveaways:
  • Ann Arbor township  gave away 500 seedlings
  • City of Ypsilanti gave away 235 seedlings
  • City of Dexter gave away 425 seedlings
• Super-star volunteers gave away 2,000+ extra trees:
  • Karen Nelson & Tara Stowe at the Saline Farmers Market
  • Patricia Bigelow gave away seedlings around Ypsilanti & Dixboro areas
  • James Weir took trees to give to local birding groups
  • Hillary Archibold distributed free trees at the A2 Farmers Market
  • David W. has been planting hundreds along the Potowanami trail 

Checkout these resources:

• Submit a request for free or discounted trees for community giveaways or plantings.
• Apply to the School & Community Habitat Grant - includes tree planting projects in community spaces!
• Donate to support the WCCD in continuing offering these accessible options for plants and resources!