Events

Wednesday's greening (April 1st, from 9-11am) will begin at Trolley Triangle (at the corner of Emory Street and 8th Avenue). As time permits, we will continue to the Wishing Tree Garden (formerly the 7th Avenue Boat Launch Garden) on Main Street next to Deal Lake. Tasks will include raking, pruning, and trimming back last year's… Read More »APESTC Greening — Trolley Triangle and Wishing Tree

Saturday's greening will begin at the Pollinator Garden (Lake Avenue and Heck Street) and continue along Lake Avenue to the other gardens. We'll be cleaning up, pulling spring weeds, and preparing for this season's flowers!

Our Wednesday greening will begin at the John Kennedy statude in Kennedy Park (Cookman Avenue and Grand Avenue). We'll then continue over to Lake Avenue, to finish the weeding we started on Saturday.

Our Saturday greening (April 11th, from 9-11am) will begin at the Rain Garden on Main Street and Springwood Avenues. We will then continue down Lake Avenue to weed the remaining gardens we weren't able to finish on Wednesday.

This Saturday there are two opportunities to join our volunteers and get your hands dirty! Join our community farm team of volunteers (Farm is located between City Hall and the Asbury Park train station) in some weeding and direct sowing of early spring vegetables.

Our ESTC volunteers will gather at the Rotary Garden on 5th Avenue (on Sunset Lake, east of the Grand Street bridge). We will be planting irises and doing general maintenance.

Our Saturday greening (April 18th, from 9-11am) will begin at the Kite Garden on Lake Avenue, and continue west up to the AP Rose Garden. As time permits, we'll head over to the Daffodil Garden on Sunset Avenue (near the Wanamassa Bridge). We'll be weeding, weeding, weeding!

Wednesday's greening (April 22, 9-11am) will begin at the AP Rose garden on Lake Avenue and Emory Street. Once we're done weeding that garden, if time permits, we'll continue over to Pivinski Park/Civil War Memorial Garden, on Cookman Avenue.

Saturday's greening (April 25th, from 9-11am) will take place at the Gratitude Garden (north of City Hall, next to the train station). We'll begin with a thorough weeding, and then spread mulch throughout the garden. Wear your grubbiest clothes!

This is our busiest time of year, and we'll often need to schedule additional greening sessions to keep us on top of our gardens and trees. On Tuesday, April 28th (8:30am - 10:30am), volunteers will meet on Deal Lake Avenue and Webb Street to re-set some trees.

Wednesday's greening (April 29th, 9-11am) will be our first major tree planting of the spring season. We will be planting trees on 8th Avenue, in the 300 block.