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.
Wednesday's Greening will begin at St. John"s Island to replace a tree that had recently been vandalized. Depending on the DPW schedule, who will be digging 3 new tree pits, volunteers will then go to 1606 Sewall Avenue. Otherwise, autumn garden cleanup will begin on Lake Avenue at the Children's Garden.
There will be a SUG on Friday, 11/3/23 beginning at 9:30 AM at the Children's Garden on Lake Avenue east of Heck Ave. Volunteers will be doing a final autumn cleanup of the gardens on Lake Ave getting therm prepared for winter.
Wednesday's ESTC Greening (11/8/23) will be the planting of Spring bulbs beginning at the Children's Garden on Lake Avenue just east of Heck Avenue.
The ESTC received permission from the City Manager and City Engineer to clean up and plant Spring bulbs at the Rainbow Bridge Memorial Garden on Lake Ave at the south end of Kennedy Park. The park is still being remodeled and no one is allowed on the grounds but you volunteers got clout! We will… Read More »APESTC Greening — Rainbow Bridge
Wednesday's ESTC greening will begin and end at the Civil War Garden on Cookman and Grand Avenue from 9-11am. Pruning and planting are on the agenda.
Saturday's ESTC Greening 9-11 AM will be at Gratitude Garden and City Hall for pruning, deadheading and possibly Spring bulb planting.
On Saturday morning, we'll clean up the garden at Trolley Triangle... weather permitting!
It appears that we will be enjoying a warmer day on Saturday, 12/9/23, so there will be an ESTC Greening on the 5th Avenue side of Sunset Lake near Owen's Garden. The grasses along the lake need to be trimmed and bundled away.
Wednesday's weather will be chilly but the warmest of the week so there will be a Greening from 9-11 AM beginning at the Pollinator Garden on Lake and Heck Aves. Tom
Mother/Father Nature has decided to alter garden schedules in order for garden enthusiasts (volunteers) to continue keeping physically and emotionally fit pruning, raking and tending our city's 25 gardens. Saturday's Greening will pick up where we left off at Wednesday Greening, namely the Children's Garden and eastward on Lake Avenue. It will be chilly at… Read More »APESTC Greening — Children’s Garden
Imagine! Greening in February. Who'd have thunk? Saturday's Greening won't really be a true greening since the work to be done in the gardens is trash collecting. We will begin at Merchants Park (Main and Cookman), amble over to Press Plaza (Cookman and Mattison) and end at The Civil War garden (Cookman and Grand.
We're back! Well, maybe! Saturday's weather is supposed to be rain but of late I have become skeptical of forecasts so there will be a cleanup Greening at the Civil War Garden on Grand and Cookman. However, if it is raining, stay in bed.