Canopy Restoration Project

05/31/2026

Our Fall 2026 project is on! Thank you to Pensacola City Council for Thursday's unanimous vote to fund our sixth project since 2022. We're looking forward to getting our number of trees in the ground to over 400 this Fall.

05/01/2026

Huge thanks to Matt Yosten of Wise Owl Tree Care for donating his Friday morning to helping prune the last few of our 2023 participants' trees. Our arborist friends help us make this project happen and we sure are grateful for the expertise and hand work!

02/17/2026

Beth Bolles and her intrepid Master Gardener Crew, along with arborist Michael McClellan of Kenneth Nobles Tree Service, kindly donated their Friday morning to our 2022 trees' pruning. We'll be out next week to begin on 2023 project trees. Early pruning helps establish healthy limbs and connections on the tree, making them more storm resistant for the future. Thank you to all who showed up to help!

01/25/2026

Our tree planting season ended strong, with over 30 volunteers showing up on Saturday to spend their weekend doing some good for their neighbors and for the planet. Thank you to everyone who showed up to help, especially John Davy of Panhandle Growers, Inc. for the excellent planting demonstration, County Arborist Jimmie Jarrett for her expert advice and Escambia County's RESTORE and Resiliency Division Manager Ryan Kirby for pulling us all together to do a county-wide planting. Our goal is to make it to 1000 trees in the ground within the next 5 years, and thanks to our volunteers, we're well on our way.

01/17/2026

Huge thanks to the 25 volunteers who came out to plant 29 trees across Escambia County on this chilly morning! We'll be back at it again next weekend to plant our final 34 trees for this planting season, putting us at a total of 370 trees in the ground since our beginning in 2022. Survival rates remain high thanks to our participants' commitment to watering and care!

If you're interested in helping Canopy Restoration Project with future projects, please send an email to [email protected]. Thank you!

01/14/2026

Good morning! We need four more volunteers this coming Friday, January 16th, from 9am-12pm. We'll be transporting trees to their future homes, so we need a few more people to help load and unload trees. If you don't have a truck you can volunteer to ride with a driver. Thanks!

Thank you for volunteering with Canopy Restoration Project! This is our first collaboration with Escambia County and we're so excited to expand our reach! Friday, January 16th, 2026 will be "prep day," it involves transporting trees and mulch to their new homes. We need any extra hands to help move....

01/04/2026

Join us!

🌳 Calling all tree lovers: We have a volunteer opportunity for you!

🌲 Escambia County, in partnership with the Canopy Council and Canopy Restoration Project, invites residents to three volunteer opportunities to help plant trees in Escambia County. Volunteer opportunities will take place Friday, Jan. 16, Saturday, Jan. 17, and Saturday, Jan. 24 at various locations throughout Escambia County.

ℹ Learn more and sign up to participate here: https://bit.ly/4pedqa9

12/15/2025

Canopy Restoration Project is excited to partner with Escambia County for the first time in January to plant more trees across our beautiful Panhandle! We couldn't do it without our volunteers, so if you're available to help out on the weekend of January 16th or January 24th, please sign up below:

January 16th and 17th Planting Day Volunteer Sign Up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AAFA92BA4FEC52-60956612-canopy #/

January 24th Planting Volunteer Sign Up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AAFA92BA4FEC52-60957222-canopy #/

Thank you for volunteering with Canopy Restoration Project! This is our first collaboration with Escambia County and we're so excited to expand our reach! Saturday, January 24th is Planting Day! This involves meeting at Galvez Landing (5820 Cruzat Way) to watch a short tree planting demonstration, a...

12/09/2025

The answer is yes, you knock on their doors and you ask if they would like a tree!

“It’s an enormous task,” the mayor said. “Certainly we can plant trees in the public realm. But to the extent that most of the deficiency is not in the public realm but on private property, what do you do there? Knock on their door and say, ‘We’re here to plant a tree in your yard?’ The reality is, how do you get there? That’s the strategy we have to come up with.”

Getting the job done would cost between $27.6 million and $103.4 million, according to a consultant.