Bring your boots.
We'll bring the trees.
No experience necessary. Just a willingness to spend a morning planting pawpaws alongside neighbors, students, and the people who’ll one day eat the fruit.
June 13 Pawpaw Planting Volunteer Work Day
We're planting pawpaw seeds and seedlings at Michael Haines' property in Kingston. We'll talk techniques, do some hands-on planting, and send everyone home with free seeds.
- When
- Saturday, June 13 · 10:00 a.m.
- Where
- Michael Haines' property
32932 Glidden Rd, Kingston, IL - Bring
- Long pants, gloves, sun protection, water
- Parking & directions
- Use the pull-off just north of 32932 Glidden Rd and park. Walk east to the far end of the adjoining alfalfa field — we'll meet you there.
The rest of the season.
- Sat, June 13 · 10amPawpaw Planting Volunteer Work DayMichael Haines' property, Kingston IL · free seeds to take home
- Summer 2026Grove maintenance daysWatering, mulching, deer-cage checks
- September 2026Pawpaw Festival, Paw Paw, ILWe run the education tent · with NIU
Sign up below and we'll email confirmed details (time, meeting location, what to bring) a week ahead of each event.
Volunteer on a planting day
Show up to a tree-planting day or grove-maintenance day. We bring the trees, the tools, and the know-how. You bring boots and willingness.
Plant pawpaws yourself
Take home stratified seeds or a seedling. Plant a grove in your yard, your school, your church, or a neighborhood park. We’ll send you home with what you need to start.
Educate your neighbors
Tell your neighbors what a pawpaw is — most people in Northern Illinois have never seen one. Bring a friend to a planting day, or to the Pawpaw Festival, where they can finally taste one for themselves.
Donate
Fund nursery stock, classroom materials, and the work that gets trees in the ground. Every dollar goes directly into the next planting season.
Can't make June 13? Get on the list.
We'll email about future planting days, grove workdays, and the festival. (For June 13 specifically, RSVP on Facebook.)
Sign up through Givebutter.
Add your name to the volunteer list for planting days, grove workdays, school programs, and the Pawpaw Festival education tent.
Open volunteer signupYou will be taken to our Givebutter volunteer form.