Plant shade trees around Altgeld's residential blocks.

Trees are working infrastructure at a fenceline: they shade, they buffer dust and noise from the industrial ring, and Altgeld's open blocks have room for far more of them. Each correctly planted hardy tree is a decades-long air-and-heat buffer.

Where

Approved planting areas, Altgeld Gardens residential blocks, Chicago, IL 60827 · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

GPS-dated photo of each tree planted to standard

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-10-17

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Confirm approved planting locations with the site host or managing authority and call 811 before digging.
2. Dig wide, shallow holes and set each root flare at grade.
3. Backfill, water deeply, and mulch a ring clear of the trunk.
4. Stake only where winds demand, with soft ties.
5. Photograph each planted tree with GPS and date on and record species and count.

What counts as done

• Photo of each planted tree with GPS and date
• Root-flare close-up
• Mulch-ring photo
• Species and count list

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Tree Planting and Establishment. Planting a tree properly is a codified craft, and the arborists' standards are blunt about why: most young trees that die were killed at planting, by a hole dug too deep, a root ball left bound, a first summer without water. Mastery looks like trees you planted years ago still standing, which is the only measure arborists accept. The craft lives in exactly the steps this packet asks for: the wide shallow hole, the freed roots, the mulch kept off the trunk, the watering that follows. Plant one tree correctly and you know something real.