Volunteers gather on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, from 9:00am until 11:00am. We announce which garden we’ll be working on the day before each gathering, so check this page to see where we will be meeting.
Saturday's greening (October 12, 9-11am) will be focused on planting 6 new street trees. We will be moving from tree to tree, in this order: 1. 407 Seventh Ave 2. 1515 Park Ave 3. Sixth Ave corner at Park Ave NW side 4. 703 Sixth Ave 5. 3rd Ave near corner with Grand (in front… Read More »APESTC Greening — Street Tree Planting
Saturday's greening (October 27th, 9-11am) will be at the Civil War Garden on Cookman and Grand Avenues. We will be trimming back perennials and beginning our fall clean-up.
Saturday's greening (November 2nd, 9-11am) will take place at City Hall. We'll continue cleaning out the garden beds, trimming back perennials, and other end-of-season tasks.
Arbor Day (Part 2) will be celebrated on Saturday, May 3rd from 9-11am at the Boys and Girls Club at 1201 Monroe Avenue. Shade Tree volunteers and friends are invited to plant 12 new trees.
Wednesday's greening session will take place at Owen's Garden, at 5th Avenue and Emory. Volunteers will be weeding the flower bed, and the strip that leads up to the Emory Street bridge.
Saturday's greening (5/9, starting at 9:00am) will take place in front of city hall. We'll weed the garden bed around the sign board, and continue with weeding and mulching the gardens in front of the building.
Saturday's Greening (5/17; 9-11am) will begin at the Pollinator Garden on Lake Avenue (at the foot of the bridge to Ocean Grove). We will weed and mulch that garden, then proceed eastward to do the same for the other gardens.
Saturday's Greening (5/23 - 9-11am) will be clearing out some stubborn cup plants to give more space for the sunflower garden flowers to bloom later this summer.
Our group will be participating in the NJ Pride Parade on Sunday, June 1. We will use our regularly scheduled greening time on Saturday morning (5/31 - 9-11am) to decorate our float. Volunteers are asked to show up at the Department of Public Works building on Main Street (near the border to Ocean Grove). If… Read More »APESTC Greening — NJ Pride Float Decoration
Our Saturday greening will begin at the Butterfly Garden (5th Avenue near Veteran's Park) and continue to the adjacent Rotary Garden, and Owen's Garden at the footbridge on Emory Street.
Our Saturday greening (6/28 8-10am) will begin at the Rainbow Bridge garden (on Lake Avenue, inside Kennedy Park). Weeding will be on the agenda!
Our greening for Wednesday, July 9th, will begin at the Kite Garden on Lake Avenue, and continue westward to weed and deadhead as many of the gardens along the lake as we can tackle.