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 (6/12/24 - 8-10 AM) ESTC Greening will be the final Arbor Day tree planting at the east end of Wesley Lake. The team at the DPW has already dug the hole and brought the tree over. Afterwards volunteers will move to the Seagull Garden to prepare it for a SUG (Spontaneous Urban Gardening) on… Read More »APESTC Greening — Wesley Lake Tree Planting
Wednesday’s ESTC Greening will be at Trolley Triangle (8th Ave and Emory Street) where irises need pruning and our nemesis, mugwort, is in need of taming. We will meet before the heat at 8:00 AM.
Saturday's ESTC Greening (6/22/24 - 8-10 AM) will be a community outreach at 1206 Fifth Avenue in Asbury Park. An elderly resident is in need of pruning and weeding the right of way and has also offered to donate small saplings from her front yard for planting elsewhere.
Wednesday's ESTC Greening (6/26/24 - 8-10 AM) will begin at the new eastern end garden on Lake Ave where (1) an official name for the garden will be selected and (2) where a donation of pond stones will be laid around the garden's edge.
Saturday's ESTC Greening (Saturday 6/29/24 - 8-10 AM) will focus on the Gratitude Garden on Bangs Ave next to City Hall's side entrance. Aside from the usual weeding of summer weeds, new plantings of September Charm and Jobert Honorine Anemones will be placed in the once weeded areas. Volunteers also will be transplanting Penstemon which has… Read More »APESTC Greening — Gratitude Garden
Wednesday's ESTC Greening (7/3/24 - 8-10 AM) will be at Owen's Garden on 5th Ave and Emory Street.
Saturday's Greening (7/6/24 8-10 AM) will be at the AP Rose Garden on Lake and Emory Avenues.
Saturday's greening will begin at the Symphony Garden on Lake Avenue (near the Seagull Garden). We will be weeding, deadheading, and cleaning up each of the small gardens along the lake, culminating at the Carousel View Garden.
Our next Greening will be on Saturday. Volunteers will meet at the Butterfly Garden on 5th Ave next to Veterans Park from 8-10 AM. Summer weeds need pulling and spent blooms need deadheading.
Wednesday's greening (7/23) will be weather permitting -- if it's raining, we won't meet. If the weather permits, we'll meet at the Gratitude Garden next to City Hall, for weeding and deadheading.
Saturday's greening (7/27 from 8:00am to 10:00am) will begin at Trolley Triangle at 8th and Emory. From there, we'll continue to the Boat Launch Garden on Main Street and 7th Avenue, and wrap up at the Rose Circles in Library Square Park on Heck and 1st avenue.
Wednesday's greening will begin at the Carousel View Garden on Lake Avenue (the most "Easterly" garden on the Lake!) and move westward. We'll be weeding (nut grass and Mugwort!) and head heading.