Save the Date for the Alliance’s 2025 Tree Planting Relay (Treelay): April 5, 2025!

Join the Alliance as we host back-to-back tree plantings in a relay-style event to get thousands of trees in the ground in just one day. Known as “Treelay,” this event takes place at numerous sites across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and volunteers plant continuously for one full day.

Our inaugural Treelay in October 2022 kicked off with 170 volunteers who planted over 3,000 trees, and during our second Treelay in 2024, over 230 volunteers planted more than 4,000 trees!

 

Hear our staff describe the Treelay experience!

For decades, the Alliance has engaged communities in watershed conservation via volunteer tree plantings. Not only do these plantings help accomplish important work and increase awareness about watershed issues, they also empower communities to take action and can cascade into more locally-led stewardship. This is why we’re on a mission to get as many community members outside as possible.

 

See what our past volunteers have to say about Treelay.

 

2025 Treelay Locations

  • Tree planting in Elizabethtown, PA – 8 am to 10 am
  • Urban tree planting in Wheaton, MD – 10 am to 12 pm
  • Tree planting in Lancaster, PA – 12 pm to 4 pm
  • Urban tree planting in Annapolis, MD – 3 pm to 6 pm
  • Tree planting in Spring Grove, PA – 6 pm to 9 pm

More details and additional planting sites are coming soon and will be posted to our Treelay event page.

Can’t make Treelay? Join us for a Project Clean Stream (PCS) event. Sign up for the Confluence to stay up to date on Treelay and PCS news!