Saturday's ESTC Greening (5/11/24 - 9-11 AM) will be a reprise of this past Wednesday's cancelled agenda. Volunteers will begin at the Rain Garden on Main and Springwood Ave to continue mugwort and plantain removal and then move to the electronic sign at City Hall where cannas will be removed, new amendments will be added… Read More »APESTC Greening — Rain Garden and City Hall Sign

The weather forecast for Wednesday (5/15/24 9-11 AM) is a chance of light rain so dress appropriately! The Wednesday Greening will be at the Children's Garden on Lake Ave.

Saturday's greening will begin at the Children's Garden on Lake Avenue, and continue over to the Rainbow Bridge Garden up the road.

The next Greening will be Wednesday (5/22/24 from 9-11 AM) at the  5th and Locust Ave Rain Garden. Get ready to pull out a lot of Mugwort.

The 2024 ESTC Arbor Day theme of "Making Grand Avenue Green and Grand" resumes with Saturday's Greening. The Greening will begin at 8:00 AM instead of 9:00 AM and the hope is we will plant 3 new trees. The DPW as usual will be side by side with us delivering the trees and helping to… Read More »APESTC Greening — Grand Street and 1st Avenue

Saturday's greening will involve mulching and weeding! We'll begin at 8:00 am at Press Plaza, continue on to the Civil War Memorial/Pivinski Park, and finish at the Gratitude Garden by City Hall.

Tuesday's SUG (Spontaneous Urban Gardening) (6/4/24 - 8-10 AM) will be at the Daffodil Garden on Sunset and Bridge Aves. There will be plenty of vetch to kvetch about it.

Wednesday's greening will begin at the Civil War/Pivinski Park Garden, and continue to the Rainbow Bridge Garden on Lake Avenue. Weeding and mulching will be the tasks of the day

Saturday's Greening (6/8/24  8-10 AM) will begin at the Butterfly Garden on 5th Avenue next to Veterans' Park and end at the Rainbow Bridge Garden on Lake Ave at the south end of Kennedy Park.  Irises need to be pruned and weeds pulled. 

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.