Dec 17, 2018
By: Amber Brandt, the Coziness Consultant You’ve heard the saying, “good fences make good neighbors,” but I actually think people who say “you belong with me" make the best neighbors. As part of a volunteer training I took a few years ago, our...
Nov 18, 2018
By: Ellie Hutchison The holiday season is a season of gathering. We come together around candle-lit tables to share meals and conversation. We reunite with family and friends and pause to give thanks for the blessings in our lives. In other words,...
Rewind one year: It’s October 2017, and I’m beginning my Communications Internship at Treetops Collective. It has been four months since I graduated college, four months of being a “real adult,” free of due dates and sleepy-eyed studying. In one hand I'm...
Dana and I founded Treetops in the midst of a busy season of motherhood. With toddlers and babies in tow, we scribbled ideas on post-its, gathered the community for listening sessions, and took baby steps, and a couple of bold steps, to...
Just over a week ago, we gathered with 360 friends and neighbors to celebrate the welcoming work of the Treetops Collective community.It was a joy to share a delicious meal, hear stories from the women in our community, watch a beautiful new...
By Ellie Hutchison, a member of the Collective It took Sylvia’s family 17 years to be resettled. That meant 17 years of uncertainty. 17 years of struggling to live an ordinary, stable life—to find jobs, go to school, and create a sense...
