Arbor Day Events, Tree Giveaways & Sales
Below is a list of Arbor Day Celebrations, as well as tree sales and giveaways. The Mississippi Forestry Commission encourages all citizens to celebrate Mississippi Arbor Day by planting a new tree, ensuring the health of our community forests for future generations.
2024 Arbor Day Events, Tree Giveaways & Sales
We will be adding 2024 Arbor Day Events and Tree Giveaways & Sales as we receive them, so please check back regularly. If you know of an Arbor Day event, tree giveaway, or sale, please email keasley@mfc.ms.gov, and we will add it to our list.
2023 Arbor Day Events, Tree Giveaways & Sales Listing for Reference
| Adams County | Date – February 17, 2023 Time – 7 am-noon Location – 110 Northgate Rd, Natchez, MS Contact – Theresa McGaughey; theresa.mcgaughey@ms.nacdnet.net Sale Trees: A variety of Apple, Plum & Peach, several varieties of hardwoods, and flowering Dogwood trees. Pine Seedlings are to be given on a first-come, first-serve basis. |
| Alcorn County | Date- February 9th Time- 8 am until gone Location- 3103 Mullins Drive, Corinth, MS 38834 Contact- Seth Bragg Giveaway Trees- Multiple oak species, pecans, bald cypress, Chinese chestnut, persimmon, sugar maple, white flowering dogwood, and red buckeye |
| Attala County | Tree seedling sale in the fall- order deadline is around the end of November. Bareroot berry sale – January 23rd – March 17th Native plant sale in the spring- start mid-March; deadline is mid-May. Contact – Rebekkah Bingham |
| Clay County | Date- February 17, 2023 Time- 8 am Location- 44 N Jackson Street, West Point, MS 39773 Contact- Laura Smith Giveaway Trees- Eastern Redbud, white flowering dogwood, red mulberry, persimmon, sawtooth oak, swamp chestnut. Also, a few different species of oak will be donated by Native Nurseries. |
| Desoto County | Date – February 9 Time – 8 am until gone Location- 3335 Pine Tar Alley, Southaven, MS 38672 (BankPlus Sports Center, Indoor Soccer Field) Contact- Meleiah Tyus, 662-912-4152, desotocountyswcd@gmail.com Giveaway Trees- American plum, bald cypress, blueberry bush, eastern red maple, hackberry, hydrangea, loblolly pine, native pecan, Nuttall oak, paw paw, persimmon, river birch, sassafras, sawtooth oak, Shumard oak, southern magnolia, spicebush, tulip poplar, white flowering dogwood, and white oak |
| Forrest County | Date- February 9, 2023 Time- 10 am Location- 962 Sullivan Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39401 (Lynn Cartlidge Forrest County Multi-Purpose Center) Contact person- Deena Hunter Giveaway Trees- Chinese Chestnut, Chestnut oak, Sawtooth oak, Hazelnut, Persimmon, American plum, Pecan |
| Franklin County | Sale- presale until January 10, 2023 Contact person- Mary Sullivan |
| Grenada County | Date- February 10, 2023 Time- 9:30- 11:30 Location- 2330 Sunset Drive, Grenada (Grenada USDA bldg.) Contact person- Lashon Counts Giveaway Trees- Sawtooth oak, Nuttall oak, eastern redbud, white flowering dogwood |
| Hinds County | S.T.E.M., Leaves, and Trees Friday, February 10, 2023 Time: 9 a.m. – Noon Location: MDWFP’s Mississippi Museum of Natural Science For more information, please contact Nicole Smith at 601-576-6000 or by email at nicole.smith@mmns.ms.gov Event Details |
| Humphreys County | Join us for the Mississippi Forestry Commission’s statewide Arbor Day Observance. We will begin the day with training and planting 44 trees, followed by a Celebration. Friday, February 10, 2023 9:00 am Tree Planting begins 11:00 am – Arbor Day Celebration/Observance 9 Belzoni Community Garden |
| Itawamba County | Date- February 17, 2023 Time- 9 am until Location- 201 Mueller Brass Road, Fulton, MS Contact person- Anna Archie Giveaway Trees- 500 12” bare-root: Persimmon (100), Sawtooth Oak (150), Nuttall Oak (150), Hardy Pecan (100) |
| Jackson County | Date: February 10th, 9 am until supplies exhausted MGCCC Jackson County Campus Free Tree Seedlings – Sweetshrub, Swamp Chestnut, Mayhaw, Chinquapin, Sawtooth Oak, and Fringe |
| Jefferson Davis County | Date- January 30 – February 1, 2023 Time- 9 am – 3 pm Location – 714 Columbia Avenue, Prentiss, MS 39474 Contact person- Hope Daley Sale Trees- Chinquapin, Sawtooth oak, Catalpa, Bald cypress, Crabapple, hardy pecan, American plum, kousa dogwood, peach, pear, plum, apple, and blueberry bushes |
| Jones County | Date- February 13th Time- 8 am- 4:30 Location- 3536 Hwy 15 North, Laurel, MS 39440 Contact person- Ashley Jones Sale Trees- Fruit trees, hardwoods, and shrubs |
| Lee County | Date- February 10, 2023 Time- 8 am until gone Location- 3098 Cliff Gookin Blvd, Tupelo Contact- Monica Gates Giveaway Trees- Hardwoods |
| Lafayette County | Date- February 10th, 2023 Time- 8 am until gone Location- 70 F. D. Buddy East Parkway, Oxford, MS 38655 Contact- Lee Patterson, Steven Tucker, Carol Watts Giveaway Trees- bald cypress, persimmon, red crape myrtle, white ok, hardy pecan, apple, sawtooth oak, muscadine grape vine, grape vine concord black, apple yellow delicious, swamp chestnut oak, Nutall oak, red maple, sugar maple, Belle of Georgia peach, Bartlett pear, Santa rosa plum, black walnut |
| Lamar County | Lamar County Soil & Water Conservation District Date-February 10th Time- 9 am while supplies last Location: Lamar Co.Multipurpose Building, 99 Central Industrial Row, Purvis, MS Giveaway Trees: Flowering Dogwood, Sugarberry, Indigobush, Buttonbush, Silver Maple, Crabapple, and American Plum |
| Lauderdale County | Date- February 7th, 2023 Time- 8 am while supplies last Location- 1030 Hwy 19 South, Meridian, MS- USDA Service Center Giveaway Trees- Persimmon, Sawtooth Oak, Swamp Chestnut, Nuttall Oak, Shumard Oak, Bald Cypress |
| Leake County | Sale- presale was in October and November. Will be given out end of January, first of February |
| Lowndes County | Date- February 2nd and 3rd, 2023 Time- 8 a until 4 pm or until gone Location- 2282 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Ste #1, Columbus, MS 39705 Contact person- Lori Chiasson Giveaway- one bundle per person Trees- river birch, pecan, sawtooth oak, laurel oak, loblolly pine. Each bundle contains one of each. |
| Monroe County | Date – February 10th Time – 8 am Location – 517 Hwy 145 N, Aberdeen, MS 39730 Contact Person – Ronda Garcia Giveaway – 5 trees per bundle Sale – wildflower seeds (no limit) Trees – sawtooth oak, red maple, Nuttall oak, Washington hawthorn, American plum, pawpaw, southern magnolia Seeds- sensation cosmos, candy tuft, catchfly, painted daisy, and annual wildflower mix |
| Montgomery County | Date- February 9th Time- 8 am-12 pm Location- 11 West Courthouse Drive, Winona, MS 38967 Contact person- Carla Walls Giveaway and Sale Trees- Sawtooth oak, Persimmon, crape myrtle, cypress, dogwood |
| Newton County | Newton County Soil & Water Date- February 9, 2023 Time- 9 am Location – USDA Office – 76 Little Rock Decatur Road, Decatur, MS 39327 Giveaway Trees- Bald cypress, Persimmon, Eastern Redbud, Red Maple, White flowering dogwood, Nuttall oak, sawtooth oak, Chinese chestnut. Limit of 3 trees of each species per landowner. For further information, please call the Newton County Soil & Water office at 601-635.2327 ext 3. |
| Panola County | Date- February 10, 2023 Time- 9 am until gone Location- 175 Broom Ridge Road, Batesville, MS 38606 Contact person- Jessica Downs Giveaway Trees- Nuttall oak, sawtooth oak, bald cypress, persimmon, mayhaw |
| Pearl River County | Date – Presale was October 1-December 1, 2022 Trees will be delivered on January 23, 2023. Pickup TBD Location- 310 Hwy 26 East, Ste A, Poplarville, MS 39470 Contact person- Jenna Deschamp Presale, raffling blue hydrangea and giveaway a peach tree |
| Pearl River County | Native plant sale Location: Crosby Arboretum Date: Saturday, February 11th, 10 am-Noon. Members enter at 9 am. For more info: crosbyarboretum.msstate.edu |
| Prentiss County | Date- February 10, 2023 Time- 9 am until gone Location- 615 West Church Street, Booneville, MS 38829 (USDA Service Center) Contact- Teressa Haney- 662-728-9003 ext 3 Giveaway Trees- Chinkapin Oak, Water oak, white oak, bald cypress, persimmon |
| Rankin County | Date- February 2, 2023 Time- 8 am-11 or until gone Location- 601 Marquette Road, Brandon, MS 39042 Contact- Hannah Vanderford Giveaway Trees- White crape myrtle, sugar maple, white flowering dogwood, white oak, sawtooth oak, redbud |
| Scott County | Date- February 7th, 2023 Time- 8 am until 4:30 Location- 1099 Hwy 35 South, Forest, MS 39074 (USDA Service Center) Contact- Gilda Warren Giveaway Trees- Nutall oak, sawtooth oak, bald cypress, Chinese chestnut, river birch, poplar, redbud, dogwood, loblolly pines |
| Smith County | Date- February 15, 2023 Time- 7:30-4:30 Location- 227 Magnolia Drive, Raleigh Contact person- Debbie Smith Giveaway and Sale Trees- Cypress, sawtooth oak, red and sugar maple, white dogwood, red crape myrtle, redbuds |
| Stone County | Date- February 10, 2023 Time- 9 am Location- Fairgrounds St, Wiggins, MS 39577 Contact Person- Elizabeth Lott, 601-928-4881, ext 3 Giveaway Trees- Sawtooth oak, White oak, Elderberry, Red Bay, Western Mayhaw |
| Tate County | Date-February 10, 2023 Time- 8 am until gone Location- Tate farmers market- 451 Norfleet Drive, Senatobia, MS 38668 Contact person- Cathy Tarver Giveaway Trees- sourwood, southern magnolia, tulip poplar, white flowering dogwood, loblolly pine, cherry bark oak, Nuttall oak, Shumard oak, white oak, pecan, persimmon, redbud |
| Tishomingo County | Date- February 11th Location- Fairgrounds |
| Union County | Date- February 9, 2023 Time- 9 am Location- 1510A Mansford Drive, New Albany Contact Person- Marie Alderson Giveaway Trees – Sawtooth oak |
| Yalobusha County | Date- February 9 Time- 9 am Location- 114 Front Street, Coffeeville, MS 38922 (NRCS office) Contact person- Sherry Bennett-Bishop Giveaway Trees- Persimmon |
