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Aycock Historic Neighborhood has been awarded the 2007 NeighborWoods Community Tree Planting Grant. Residents in the Aycock area will receive up to 150 trees to plant throughout the neighborhood.

The NeighborWoods program was developed in 2003 as part of the City's Comprehensive Planning process to replace trees lost to development and natural disasters. 

What is NeighborWoods?

The NeighborWoods concept originated from the 2025 Comprehensive Planning Steering Committee to initiate a community-wide tree planting / revegetation program.

City of Greensboro staff and a citizen committee further developed the program to create a public / private partnership between the City of Greensboro and Greensboro Beautiful Inc. The mission of the NeighborWoods program is to help reforest Greensboro by planting trees in neighborhoods with help from neighborhood residents.

Each year, neighborhood associations may submit an application for the NeighborWoods Program to plant street trees in their neighborhood or trees in their community park. The selected neighborhood will then work with the City of Greensboro and Greensboro Beautiful staff to help choose tree species for the planting, train tree-planting volunteers, and select a tree-planting day.

The program provides trees and mulch, and the neighborhood is asked to take responsibility for planting, watering and mulching and maintaining the trees. 

Where does the funding for NeighborWoods come from?

Trees are funded through a combination of grant monies and citizen donations that will be placed into a Tree Fund. Greensboro Beautiful serves as the steward of the fund and is a non-reverting source of monies that is used to plant trees for the NeighborWoods Program.  



The 2007 NeighborWoods Program is sponsored in part by a grant from American Express.