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A joyful new tradition for your holiday celebration, community & earth
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If the standard Christmas tree options do not feel quite right, you’re not alone…
Spending time with a tree can feel magical - especially during the holidays. But, if something has ever felt “off” about buying a beautiful, fresh, evergreen only to toss it to the curb shortly after the holiday celebration, you’re not alone. Settling for an “imported tree of plastic” we have to reuse (& store) for the next decade to make it that more “sustainable choice” - can feel like a mediocre compromise. Finally, a new holiday tree tradition is taking root in Atlanta - one that feels like a gift not only for the people we celebrate the season with, but also for our community and the earth.
Welcome to the Grove!
Joy to the Earth Trees is a community grove & native Christmas tree nursery in Mansfield, Georgia, 45 minutes east of downtown Atlanta. We offer Atlanta-area residents an opportunity to cultivate a new holiday tradition that’s truly a gift, not only for those you celebrate your holidays with this season, but for future generations. If this sounds like you, welcome to Georgia’s first Community Supported Forestry (CSF) program for holiday trees!
Community Supported Forestry (CSF) is similar to Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) - but instead of getting fresh fruits and veggies from your local farmer, you’re getting a locally grown “Christmas” tree from us. It’s yours to decorate and display over the holidays - and then it returns to the grove every year (until it’s permanently located in a Georgia Forest.)
“ It always felt a bit wasteful, and I did not like the idea of a plastic tree and storing it in my small apartment. For years, we decorated our palm tree with lights and paper snowflakes. But my husband grew up with a real Christmas tree and missed it. This solved all my problems!”
- Kristin 2023 & 2024 Joy to Earth Tree Community Supported Forester
We Understand
Growing up in Atlanta, my family had a live, cut Christmas tree every year (I'm the young girl pictured above with my family). I still remember the joy of bringing the tree into our home, watering it, and surrounding it with lights and people I loved.
However, it always felt sad when our tree, like everyone else’s in our neighborhood, was thrown to the curb in January. While some were ground into mulch, millions ended up in landfills, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, that's still happening today.
Atlanta, the “City in the Forest,” removes an estimated half-acre of its tree canopy per day. However, every day (and every holiday season), we all have a chance to create a different story. In December 2023, twenty Atlanta households helped pilot Joy to Earth Trees & a different Atlanta holiday tradition. In 2025, both the trees and the number of ATL-based Community Supported Foresters continue to grow.
This holiday, consider fostering your tree - and Georgia’s future forest.
“It’s about what people can do, what we all can do.”
Alex - 2023 & 2024 Community Supported Forester
Community Supported Forestry
Joy to the Earth Trees invites you to join Metro Atlanta’s first Community Supported Forestry program for Christmas trees. A Community Supported Forester (CSF) “fosters” (rents) a baby holiday tree from our community grove/nursery.
You foster this tree in your home for the holiday celebration. You can water your tree and surround it with lights and people you love. The difference is that after the holiday, instead of your tree being tossed to the sidewalk, it returns to the grove, where we care for it & help it continue to grow.
You can choose to “adopt” (purchase & plant) your tree for your yard. Or, we work with community partners to plant it in its “forever home” where it can continue to grow with it’s Georgia Forest Family.
The collective impact of the Christmas trees we foster & plant will continue to offer many social, economic, and environmental benefits for future generations of Georgians.
We believe this is a gift worth giving
A Gift Worth Giving
“I bought an artificial tree last year because I hated the idea of cutting down a tree and then discarding it. But I missed the live tree so this was a lovely solution! We loved it!” -Shannon - 2023 & 2024 CSF
“We loved it. Sustainability is super important to me. It was especially great to involve our 9 year old and talk about why this is important and right for our family.” - Bryanne -2023 & 2024 CSF
5 Opportunities to Help Us Grow
(We’re open to still more:)
Tour the community grove this season. Enjoy time with trees & community (& yes your ticket helps support the grove); 2) Volunteer in the grove; 3) Foster (rent) a Joy to Earth Tree; 4) Adopt/plant a Joy to Earth Tree on your property or neighborhood greenspace; 5) Donate (time, energy, expertise, materials, $) to support the project -or gift a tree to someone person that might benefit from spending time with a Joy to Earth Tree.
“Rooted in community, sustained with love”
Joy to the Earth Trees: Community Supported Forestry
