What We Do

Devine GA saves trees from introduced vines while empowering returning citizens and others with barriers to employment. We educate individuals and communities on the importance of saving trees from introduced vines and teach them of the importance of native vines that grow on trees and feed birds and wildlife. Through grants, we can employ a crew of three full-time staff, who have become experts at identifying and killing introduced vines with the minimum impact to the tree, soil and surrounding native vegetation.

We work on small projects with as few as five trees as well as massive forest restorations where the vines have taken over and have changed the landscape. We fund our work through fee-for-service contracts and through donations and grants for uncompensated projects. Our only ask is that the trees we save remain in place for the long term.

Beautification is not our goal, and we often leave our work site looking worse than when we started, but we promise the landscape will recover, hopefully along with the trees we are trying to save. Depending on the species, it might take over a year for the dead vines to fall from the tree, but we believe that is better than letting the tree die.

Our crew always leads with kindness and compassion and our mission is to do good.