Households across 33 local government areas in Sydney, including Hunters Hill, may get free trees to plant in their backyard in line with the 2021 Free Tree Giveaway initiative to plant one million trees in Greater Sydney by 2022.
The NSW Planning, Industry & Environment partnered with IndigiGrow, an all Aboriginal owned, not-for-profit based in La Perouse. The giveaway will run until May 2021 for the batch of orders that will open beginning 1 April 2021.
“Planting one million trees will provide more shade, cleaner air and more resilient places to live. To reach the target of one million trees we need individuals to play a part and plant trees in your own backyard,” per the government agency.
Below is the complete list of local government units eligible to order the free tree giveaway:
- Bayside
- Blacktown
- Blue Mountains
- Burwood
- Camden
- Campbelltown
- Canada Bay
- Canterbury-Bankstown
- Cumberland
- Fairfield
- Georges River
- Hawkesbury
- Hornsby
- Hunters Hill
- Inner West
- Ku-Ring-Gai
- Lane Cove
- Liverpool
- Mosman
- North Sydney
- Northern Beaches
- Parramatta
- Penrith
- Randwick
- Ryde
- Strathfield
- Sutherland
- Sydney
- The Hills
- Waverly
- Willoughby
- Wollondilly
- Woollahra
Register your intent to get free trees online. If the stocks run out, you will still be notified as soon as it’s available.
Pick-up will be at La Perouse Public School, where IndigiGrow operates the initiative. Details will be provided in your registered email.
More opportunities to receive free trees will be available by June 2021.