Run the weekly watering round for young street trees in Kashmere Gardens (2026-08-03)

Kashmere Gardens is one of Houston's hottest, least-shaded neighborhoods, and young trees planted along its streets die in their first two summers without steady water. A weekly watering round through the brutal months is the difference between a stick that fails and a canopy that cools the block for fifty years. Anyone with buckets or a hose cart can keep these trees alive. Standard: Texas A&M Forest Service young-tree establishment care; SDG 11.7 (green public space) and 13 (climate resilience). Proof: GPS-tagged photo of every watered tree, weekly Method (Texas A&M Forest Service young-tree establishment care; SDG 11.7 (green public space) and 13 (climate resilience).): 1. Walk the assigned blocks and identify every young street tree (trunk thinner than your wrist). 2. Give each tree 10 to 15 gallons of water slowly at the root zone, using buckets, jugs, or a hose. 3. Pull weeds and trash from each tree's mulch ring and top up mulch where soil is bare, keeping mulch off the trunk. 4. Note any tree that is broken, girdled, or dying on a simple tally sheet. 5. Photograph each watered tree with GPS and date to close the round. Done when: Photo of each tree with water visibly applied, GPS and date; Tally sheet photo listing tree count and condition notes; One wide shot of the block walked

Where

Public street trees near Kashmere Gardens Park, Houston, TX 77026

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. You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

GPS-tagged photo of every watered tree, weekly

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-08-10

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it. Typically 30–60 minutes. Method of record: i-Tree canopy / street-tree inventory

Bring

• GPS phone
• DBH tape or measuring tape
• tree ID reference
• camera
• hi-vis vest

Steps

1. 1. Walk the corridor; record a GPS waypoint at each tree.
2. 2. Photograph each surveyed tree.
3. 3. Record species (best estimate), condition class (good/fair/poor/dead), and DBH (diameter at breast height).
4. 4. Count vacant planting sites.
5. 5. Enter the per-tree records, vacant-site count, GPS, photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Dead or hazardous tree observed -> flag for the responsible agency (no removal by surveyor).
• High vacant-site count -> recommend a planting plan for the corridor.

What counts as done

• Photo of each tree with water visibly applied, GPS and date
• Tally sheet photo listing tree count and condition notes
• One wide shot of the block walked

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.