Alberta Grade 1 Tree Register
Mapping Our Grade 1 Trees & Their Stories
Every year, for more than 60 years, the Alberta Government delivered close to 70,000 tree seedlings to Grade 1 students across the province. We started the Grade 1 Tree Register with one question - Where Are They?
About Us
We are Joshua Kirsch, a grade 8 student passionate about finding and mapping Heritage Trees, and Dustin Bajer, an educator, tree enthusiast, and tree grower. We believe in the power of trees to tell stories about the people and communities that tend them. Our plants reflect ourselves, and for many, our Grade 1 Trees hold a special place in our hearts and childhood homes. We created the Alberta Grade 1 Tree Register to see how many Grade 1 Trees we can locate.
In The Media
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Aug 11, 2022, CBC, Radioactive, Where Are of Alberta's grade 1 trees?
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Aug 13, 2022, CBC, Planting trees in Grade 1 is an Alberta tradition
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Aug 21, Sonic Radio
This Project Is Supported By
Shrubscriber
Community Partner
Shrubscriber brings together gardeners, educators, schools, and organizations with community, workshops, seeds and step-by-step instructions to propagate and distribute thousands of trees so that we can grow a food secure, biodiverse, and climate-adapted Edmonton.
Edmonton Heritage Council
Granting Partner
In 2019, The Edmonton Heritage Council provided a Community Accelerator Grant to Dustin Bajer to research and catalogue heritage trees across Edmonton.
The Alberta Grade 1 Tree is an extension of that work.
Alberta Tree Register
Project Partner
The Alberta Tree Register seeks to catalogue and map uncommon, old, large, and historic trees across the province.
Canadian Tree Fund
Granting Partner
Support from the Canadian Tree Fund has made it possible to pursue the creation of a provincial heritage tree register, to which we hope to include trees from the Alberta Grade 1 Tree Map.
