The Good Life For Less: Free Trees And Plants

It's Arbor Day and that means seedlings are abound today! Here are a few places where you can get free or cheap ones for yourself.

• McDonald's is offering free red pine seedlings while supplies last. Just stop into stores around Minnesota and Wisconsin to pick one up and enter for a chance to win a 8-10 foot tree to be planted in your yard.

• If you join the Arbor Day Foundation you can choose to get 10 free trees or to have them plant 10 trees in your honor in National Forests. Membership is $10.

• TreeDazzled gives away free seeds all the time. Click here for details and you can get them once every two weeks.

• You should check out this article that gives 10 other great ways to get free trees and plants.

Get out there and get planting the good life!

-Alison Lorge is a web producer and consumer blogger at WCCO.