For the past few years, the Hawthorne Neighborhood Council has distributed free trees throughout north Minneapolis through our tree nursery in the EcoVillage. Late last week we received this year's shipment - a whopping seventy-nine trees! Given the damage in NoMi from the tornado, a decision was made to prioritize trees for those who lost one to the storm.
I announced our new shipment of trees at the Hawthorne Huddle and posted another announcement on the Minneapolis Tornado Watch Facebook page. Word spread like wildfire, and before any standardized method for distributing trees was set up, over thirty trees already found new homes.
In order to try and give people throughout north Minneapolis an equal chance at getting a free tree, we will schedule a time later this week or on the weekend when trees can be picked up on a first-come, first-served basis. The specifics of that announcement will be coming within the next 24 hours.
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