the grounds of the Vermont Square Branch Library, 1201 W 48th St, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Plant a fruit tree.
A worker digs a hole in the bare ground at the grounds of the Vermont Square Branch Library with a round-point shovel and sets a fruit tree into it, leaving a mulched orchard tree. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $380 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- ProofGPS waypoint + before/after photos of root flare at grade + species/variety record + mulch/watering-basin confirm + signage photo
- Open until2027-11-10
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Plant a fruit tree in the community orchard corner at the Vermont Square Branch Library grounds in Los Angeles. The side yard is bare turf with no shade and no food, and the canopy survey named it the branch's best open-ground candidate for an orchard patrons can harvest year-round. For the payer: - Price: $380 per fruit tree planted. - Likely payer: A grant-funded nonprofit crew (LA Conservation Corps, LANI, Clean California or CAL FIRE grants), or the site's host. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-27 Landscaping license.
Offer to pay $380. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Start after the crew's safety orientation. The employer provides drinking water, shade and cool-down rests, and N95 masks when wildfire smoke puts the AQI at 151 or more. No other special training is needed. Stop and reschedule, do not dig, if a buried utility is unmarked or suspected or no 811 locate is honored; reject dry, circling-rooted or wounded stock, and get branch-manager consent for the planting layout first; wear safety-toe boots and leather gloves.
The full safety list for this job:
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for root balls and stakes of 50 pounds or more that can drop; leather gloves for rough bark, stakes and ties.
- Wildfire smoke, section 5141.1: at a PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more the employer provides N95 respirators for voluntary use and moves the work indoors or cuts exposure where feasible; above AQI 500 respirators are required under a respiratory protection program.
- Heat, section 3395: drinking water, shade and cool-down rests; shade is ready at 80 F and the high-heat steps start at 95 F.
- Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- a round-point shovel to dig the planting hole and a watering can to water the tree in
Steps
- Obtain the orchard steward's or site host's written scope for this orchard planting before work (the trees, the spots, the date, and who waters them) and, if a crew or grantee sent you, its work order. Get the site host's or agency's written consent to work there too. Write what you got at the top of your proof. With no written scope, stop.
- Get the branch manager's consent for the planting layout before starting.
- Confirm the planting site is utility-cleared and record a GPS waypoint inside the posting radius.
- Photograph the planting site before digging, showing the bare ground.
- Select healthy nursery stock and record the fruit species, variety and rootstock.
- Dig the planting hole and set the tree so the root flare sits visible at grade.
- Photograph the planted tree from the same vantage, showing the root flare at grade.
- Apply mulch 2 to 3 inches deep around the tree, held off the trunk.
- Form a watering basin around the tree and water it in.
- Post the 'community orchard, free to harvest when ripe' sign and photograph it.
What counts as done
- GPS waypoint recorded inside the posting radius on utility-cleared ground
- Before and after photos showing the root flare visible at grade
- Fruit species/variety and rootstock recorded
- Mulch applied 2-3 inches deep and held off the trunk, with a watering basin formed and watered in
- Public 'community orchard -- free to harvest when ripe' signage photo
- Scope: the orchard steward's or site host's written scope for this orchard planting, and the work order of any crew or grantee that sent you, dated before the first photo.
- Site consent: the site host's or agency's written consent to work there, dated before the first photo.
- Sign-off: the site host or steward, or the supervisor of the crew of record, signs off the finished work in writing. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
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.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.
Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.
Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.
Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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