Plant & protect 10000 trees in San Luis Potosi

How do we start planting?

We take a walk around the City and discover our  urban forest... where are the trees? who care of them?... is this something we like? if not, how we would like the city looks like? that is how  we start planing to make this world a better place for us and for our childres in future.

We start thinking in our Vision of greening San Luis Potosi, bringing nature to the city, decreasing pollution, creating wildlife habitat, conserving energy, producing more oxygen, and share these thoughts  with our  local goverment.

Talking  with the local goverment about locations, neighbors backyards, sidewalks, city parks, schools, vacant lots which need this greening Vision.

Then we invited  the neighborhoods door to door, flyers, neighborhood groups memos and select the final location based on surrounding vegetation topography, sunlight, slope, soil type, type of trees, number of volunteers required, permits.

It´s very important prepairing the site for the event day, because we have to check and validate  what is needed, the access for the vehicles, clearing vegetation, digging a hole, water source, restrooms.  As well a couple weeks before the event, we get permits, take the "before" pictures, recruit volunteers, make a map to the site and of the site, tell volunteers what to wear and bring to the event, and spreading the word; we do a timeline for each event:

1. Group meeting to load tools and trees into the vehicles to transport them to the site
2. Prepare the  tools & trees, (inventory, accomodation).
3. Setup visual signals with directions to the site
4. Provide to the volunters general instructions 
5. Volunteers arrive
6. Planting demonstration and volunteer orientation
7. Planting begins
8. Break for lunch
9. Clean-up
10. Return tools (inventory)
11. Verification of the timeline covered in all the points

The next steep is start to planning  the next planting day.

Thank you GlobalGiving, thank you Donors, thank you Volunteers,  all the members in Proforestal  are truly excited for greening San Luis Potosi since our beginning back to April 2nd, 2016. Since that day we have planted 585 trees, 225 volunteers have joined and planted trees in 8 sites. We have spread the word in almost 10,000 people, and now  we are working in our mailing list of 1500 people.

We will keep you updated about our activities.

Links:

• Our urban forest program in the web
• Facebook page of the urban forest program