Door County Big Plant
Planting Trees, Growing & Learning.
The Door County Big Plant brings together individuals, businesses, schools, and local non-profits each spring and fall to plant over 10,000 native trees annually.
Each season, the Big Plant offers native trees and shrubs for purchase—giving families, schools, and businesses a chance to plant on their own properties. By choosing native species, you’re helping restore local ecosystems and strengthen Door County’s climate resilience.
Tree orders for Spring 2026 are concluded.
Thanks, everyone, for your orders — it’s going to be a great year of planting!
Free public Community Tree Plantings
4/26 at 3 pm
near Valmy, near Giesel Creek, by black ash swamp
4887 Highway 57, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
5/1 at 12:15 pm
Shivering Sands, at The Nature Conservancy property
4053 E. Whitefish Bay Road (County T), Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
mandatory TNC sign-up link
5/6 at 9 am
Peninsula State Park, Nelson Point
* From Ephraim entrance
(9890 Shore Rd, Ephraim, WI 54211)
* Shore Rd —> Bluff Rd —> Shore Rd
—> NELSON POINT (parking lot)
5/9 at 10 am
Crossroads at Big Creek with Habitat Healers
2041 Michigan St, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Big Plant Impact through 2025
Restoring habitats, reducing carbon, and planting a more resilient future for Door County.
Planting trees is effective community climate action. In 5 years, volunteers, families, and partners have transformed our landscape and made a measurable difference.
The Door County Big Plant is a whole-community event that is bigger than all of us. It was inspired by the Climate Change Coalition and it is executed each year by hundreds of Door County individuals, families, businesses, churches, and non-profit leaders and partners. We act as a community to plant over 10,000 trees each year, in both the Spring (April/May) and Fall (Sept/Oct).
We plant trees to help our ecosystems thrive, sequester carbon, clean the air, protect groundwater and streams, provide shade to reduce air conditioning, and beautify our homes and landscape. Our mission is to inspire as many people as possible to plant and grow as many trees as possible!
58,000+
native trees planted over 5 years
10,120+
trees planted in 2025
168+
businesses, nonprofits, and families participating
200+
volunteers at community planting events
Two Ways You Can Make an Impact
1. Order Trees to Plant and Share
We offer native trees and shrubs for purchase at a low bulk-purchase, nonprofit, reduced price. Families can order to plant on their own properties. Businesses and nonprofits order and share with their teams and communities. Order trees or shrubs.
2. Join a Community Planting
Join us at local parks, trails, schools, and natural areas to plant thousands of trees together in celebration of Earth Day. View upcoming events.
Community Plantings
Where have we been planting?
LOTS OF AMAZING PLACES!
Working with partners all around Door County, we have offering free, public community plantings over the County, including 30 plantings over the last 4 years. Most tree-plantings are at conservation hero-friend-partners Crossroads, DC Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy, and The Ridges.
We’ve also planted trees at town property, county property, childcare centers, and affordable housing land along the highway.
Click on the map to enter and peruse an interactive map.
Climate Action Backed by Science
And can we tell you about our Boreal Climate Survivability project in which we are planting trees and counting survivability by species and forest type, in order to learn & grow smarter together?
Sign up for Events and Tree Sales Alerts
Every year, the Big Plant grows stronger thanks to neighbors, schools, families, and businesses who step up to plant trees. Sign up to receive updates on tree sales, volunteer opportunities, and community planting events—and be part of the movement to keep Door County green.
Join a Community Planting
These events are free, open to the public, and a chance to take climate action while connecting with the community.
Event Partners
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