Staff & Board

30 years ago, the founders of TreeFolks hatched a simple plan and it worked “In December 1988, six friends crouched around a bonfire on a large farm near Cedar Park. Austinites Ken Gaede, [...]

Summer Reading by Dr. Sarah Dooling On July 25, behind the Willie Mae Kirk Library, TreeFolks is hosting a field tour of an urban creek restoration project that is managed by the City of Austin’s [...]

Summer Reading by Dr. Sarah Dooling Summer is the best time to dive into books that you weren’t able to get to during planting season. Below are some of my favorite reads from this summer. [...]

Due to drought and rapid urban development, Austin’s urban tree canopy has decreased by 25% in the last 30 years. With this, new tree plantings have drastically declined due to a lack of funds. [...]

TreeFolks is excited to welcome Russell Bond to the NeighborWoods team! Russ is a native Texan and grew up in the Navasota River Bottom exploring the woods and watching nature. In 2013 he [...]