Sponsor: Columbia Parks & Recreation, Columbia Farmers Market, & Volunteer Columbia
Columbia Parks and Recreation Department, along with the City of Columbia’s TreeKeepers volunteer group, the City’s Tree Board and the Columbia Farmers Market, is planning the annual Arbor Day tree giveaway.
The giveaway will be Saturday, April 20, starting at 8 a.m. and lasting until seedlings are gone. Trees will be distributed at the MU Health Care Pavilion, home of the Columbia Farmers Market, 1769 Ash St.
Two tree seedlings per person will be distributed. Trees available include:
• American beautyberry
• Bald cypress
• Black walnut
• Blackberry
• Bur oak
• Chinkapin oak
• Hazelnut
• Kentucky coffeetree
• Ninebark
• Pecan
• Persimmon
• Pitch loblolly pine
• Redbud
• Serviceberry
• River birch
• Swamp white oak