Support the Work

Your donation plants what comes next.

Every tree, wildflower, and patch of native grass that goes into the ground is funded by donations. Your support turns overlooked spaces into places where students plant together, neighbors watch what returns, and something real takes root.

This work grows one site at a time, in communities that want to see their spaces come back to life.

A young woman in a colorful tie-dye t-shirt kneeling in a wooded area, carefully placing a small green plant into the soil next to a green plastic nursery pot.

What Your Support Makes Possible

Your support allows Yaupon to create small, living sites that work — for people, wildlife, and the places they share.

  • Ecological function returns: Native ecosystems absorb water, cool overheated ground, and support birds, insects, and pollinators.

  • Learning and stewardship take root: Students, neighbors, and volunteers plant together, observe what returns, and stay involved as the site changes over time.

  • Care continues beyond planting day: Each project is designed for long-term care, observation, and measurable improvement — not one-day outcomes.

A young student in a turquoise fleece smiling while using a small hand tool to prepare soil in a wooden raised garden bed for planting.

How Sites Grow After Planting

Yaupon designs each site, sources the native plants, and facilitates planting days. Schools, neighbors, and local volunteers do the planting and ongoing care.

Donations make this possible by covering the plants and tools. The people who live and learn at each site do the rest.

If you'd like to help us plant what comes next, we'd be grateful for your support.