Mulch the street trees along east Tacoma blocks before summer.

East Tacoma's street trees grow in compacted strips that bake in summer and drown in winter. A proper mulch ring holds moisture, feeds the soil, and keeps mowers off the trunks, and most trees on these blocks have none.

Where

Street tree strips along E 34th St, Tacoma, WA 98404 · Open the map

Pay

$160 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

photos of mulched rings with flare exposed plus a block tally

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-10-19

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. Walk the assigned blocks and pull grass and weeds from a 2-to-3-foot circle around each street tree.
2. Spread wood-chip mulch 3 inches deep across each circle.
3. Pull mulch back from the trunk so the root flare stays exposed.
4. Water each fresh ring if the soil is dry.
5. Photograph five representative mulched trees and log the block count, GPS-tagged and dated.

What counts as done

• Photos of at least five completed mulch rings
• Block tally of trees mulched
• GPS coordinates and date

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.