Mulch the tree basins and bare beds along Red Bluff's hot streets.

Bare soil around Red Bluff's street trees bakes to concrete in summer, shedding the little water the trees get and cooking their roots. A thick mulch layer on every basin and public bed holds moisture through the 100°F weeks, feeds the soil as it breaks down, and is the cheapest tree-survival measure there is.

Where

Street-tree basins, blocks off Johnson Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 · Open the map

Pay

$140 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

Before/after photos of mulched basins

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. Photograph the bare basins and beds on the assigned blocks.
2. Weed each basin and loosen the crusted surface by hand.
3. Spread wood-chip mulch 3-4 inches deep across each basin and bed, kept off trunks and stems.
4. Water the mulch in where a source is available.
5. Photograph the finished basins and log the count.

What counts as done

• Before photos of bare basins with GPS and date
• After photos of mulched basins
• Basin count log

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.