Justine Phillips-Gallucci
URI Internship Year:
2022
Graduation Year:
2023
Degree:
MEM
Justine Phillips-Gallucci is a rising second-year Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. She studied Environmental Studies, with a focus in Wildlife Conservation, at the University of Connecticut, and is happy to be continuing her studies in New Haven. She is passionate about wildlife conservation and habitat restoration in urban areas and hopes to apply some of this knowledge as a Greenspace Intern this summer. When not working, she enjoys birdwatching, cooking, and hiking with her dog.
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Greenspace Log
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08/06/2022 |
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Today, the Cherry Ann volunteers finished a wonderful and productive season! The kids planted two new hostas in the garden, and then watered all of their plants, while Will picked up trash around the park. Afterwards, it was time to celebrate! The workday concluded with a cookout at Miss Connie's house to thank the kids for all of their hard work stewarding and beautifying the park this summer. |
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08/06/2022 |
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For the last workday of the season, the Washington Ave volunteers decided to move the greenspace sign in the garden, since the view of it from the street had been blocked by the rosebushes. After working together to dig out the sign, the volunteers moved it to the middle garden, to make it more visible and welcoming for community members. |
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08/05/2022 |
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The Friends of Sea Street Circle officially finished their planting season today! The group has planted over 100 perennials, and today, planted the last twelve Russian Sage, to finish their design for this summer. After finishing, the group watered and admired the change in the circle that the new plantings had brought, including many bees and butterflies! All of their hard work has certainly paid off to meet their goals for this season. |
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08/04/2022 |
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The Clifton St. River Garden volunteers wrapped up the summer with maintenance and watering of both the street garden and the canoe launch garden. Some of the volunteers worked on pulling out weeds and trimming back the plants, while the others focused on watering. The evening concluded with lemonade, watermelon, and cookies to celebrate all of the hard work done and new volunteers welcomed this season. |
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08/04/2022 |
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The Friends of Quinnipiac River started the last workday of the season by watering the two gardens and many of the trees in the park and pruning some of the trees. After making quick work of maintenance, the group had a picnic to celebrate all of the hard work and accomplishments of the volunteers this summer. They enjoyed pizza, watermelon, and chatting. |
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08/03/2022 |
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The Friends of Fairmont Park had a very productive season, and spent the last workday of the summer stewarding all of the hard work they had done. Woodchips were spread around some of the new shrubs, and everything was watered. The group also inventoried all of the shrubs they had planted to make a planting map. After some maintenance, the group had a picnic, with fruit and pizza, to celebrate! |
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07/30/2022 |
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07/30/2022 |
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Today was focused on maintenance of the existing plantings in the gardens and the park as a whole. Will picked up trash around the park, and then helped to water the two gardens. Meanwhile, Miss Connie did some weeding in the community garden. Finally, a new parking sign was hung up on the fence to direct park visitors to the lot where they could park their cars. |
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07/30/2022 |
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07/30/2022 |
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Today was a special day for Washington Ave, as a beautiful Kwanzan Cherry tree was planted in memorial. The morning started off on a difficult note, with a huge rock impeding the digging of the hole, but with perseverance and teamwork, the group was able to get the rock out! Once the hole was completed, the whole group helped with different parts of planting the tree, including removing the wire basket, mixing the compost and soil, and filling in the hole. Once the tree was planted, 4 violets were also added in, and then a layer of fresh woodchips was spread around the tree. Finally, the kids got to work watering the tree and all the other plants in the garden. It was a beautiful morning and a great way to end the planting season! |
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07/30/2022 |
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07/29/2022 |
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Today, the Sea Street volunteers finished filling in the planting pattern that they had been working on, adding in the final coneflower, sedum, and daylilies! With that part of the project complete for now, the group moved on to planting some Russian sage to start filling in the gaps between sections. With the majority of the planting complete, the group finished off their hard work for the day by watering all of the plants. |
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07/28/2022 |
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The Clifton St. volunteers enjoyed a beautiful sunset and the river breeze on the last planting day of the season! 3 variegated liriope, 3 yarrow, and 2 sedum were planted in the garden to bring different pops of color and texture. The group also planted a bunch of vinca minor along the edge of the garden, in hopes of stabilizing the ground to keep mulch and dirt from running off into the drain. The group finished with watering, picking up trash, and pruning some of the bushes. |
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07/28/2022 |
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Today, the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park had an amazing end to their planting season with the completion of the expansion of the bird garden! 4 new Perpetua blueberry bushes were planted in the garden, which will provide berries and cover for the many birds in the park. Then, the group also added a few more perennials--speedwell, coneflower, and Agastache--to the pollinator garden. Finally, the group conducted the last of their maintenance activities for the season--weeding, mulching, and lots of watering! The workday concluded with a plan to have a picnic to celebrate a successful season. |
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07/27/2022 |
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The Fairmont Park volunteers had a very successful last day of planting for the season! 7 spicebush and 5 silky dogwood were planted across the park. Afterwards, the group continued their summer-long project of pulling out invasive plants; the huge pile at the end and the newly cleared space in the garden bed showed that their hard work is paying off! |
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07/26/2022 |
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Today was a special day for the Washington Ave greenspace! A group of students from LEAP, an academic and social enrichment program, came to work in the garden. The girls participated in digging holes and planting 8 perennials (5 sedum and 3 liriope) with group leader Nikki, as well as watering the whole garden. Then, they did an arts and crafts project--customizing their own laminated butterfly signs to be hung up around the garden! It was a very productive day, and the team looks forward to coming back in the future! |
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07/23/2022 |
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Although it was a hot day, the Cherry Ann kids worked hard to finish up planting and spreading woodchips in one of the entrance gardens. The group started by weeding the area, to make room for the three new coralbells that they would plant! And after planting, they watered all of perennials in both gardens, and raked a new layer of woodchips down. Meanwhile, neighbor Will had been around the park, picking up trash. The day concluded with snacks and then a cookout at Miss Connie's to thank the kids for all of their hard work. |
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07/22/2022 |
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Today, a small but mighty group of volunteers came out to the traffic circle to continue planting, and their hard work made a huge impact! 34 more perennials were planted, bringing the group even closer to completing their planting design for the summer. And afterwards, the volunteers watered all the plants in the circle to keep everything looking green and beautiful. |
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07/21/2022 |
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Today was one of the most well-attended workdays for the Friends of Quinnipiac River, and so it is no surprise that the group was very successful in meeting their goals for the day. First, 6 new perennials (3 Agastache and 3 Tickseed) were planted in the newly expanded bird garden, both as pollinator plants and to bring a pop of color. Then, the group worked together on stewardship--watering, weeding, laying down new woodchips, and tidying up the edge of the garden. The group concluded with a discussion of their vision for the last day of planting next week. |
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07/20/2022 |
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Despite the heat, the Fairmont Park volunteers had a great and productive workday. Four more native shrubs were planted in the Forest Regeneration garden, and then the group split up to work on watering and removing invasives in several different locations in the park. Lots of burning bush, japanese honeysuckle, and multiflora rose were removed, making room for new plantings in the future. The group concluded with a plan to finishing planting shrubs for the last workday of the season next week! |
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07/16/2022 |
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This week's workday began with trash pick-up around the park, courtesy of Will. Meanwhile, the Cherry Ann kids began stewardship of the front entrance gardens--weeding, laying down fresh woodchips, and watering all of the plants. Once they had completed maintenance, the kids were able to plant three new Spiderwort plants in the garden! The workday concluded with a fun cookout at Miss Connie's house. |
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07/16/2022 |
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This week's workday was focused on stewardship of the garden. The volunteers started by spreading mulch around the flowerbeds. Afterwards, the garden was watered, rosebushes pruned, and weeds removed. |
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07/15/2022 |
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Today, the Friends of Sea Street Circle continued filling the traffic circle with beautiful perennials, adding 21 more coneflower, sedum, and daylily to brighten up the area! After planting, the volunteers worked together to water all of the plants and shrubs in the circle to help take care of them given the recent drought conditions. Great progress is being made to transform this circle into a colorful, drought-resistant, and pollinator-friendly garden. |
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07/14/2022 |
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On a beautiful evening, the Clifton St. River Garden volunteers started with maintenance of the street garden--watering, weeding, and spreading some mulch. Then, the group planted 6 new perennials at the canoe launch garden, to add color and stabilize the slope to prevent runoff into the drain. |
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07/14/2022 |
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Today, the Friends of Quinnipiac River had an "Ugly Tree Celebration." A tree in the park that had lost some of its limbs was decorated with beautifully painted birdhouses, which were created by park volunteers, as well as residents from Chatham Place at Mary Wade. Then, the group concluded with some maintenance of the park--watering, weeding, and spreading some fresh woodchips. |
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07/13/2022 |
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The Fairmont Park volunteers continued their invasive removal project this week; removing burning bush, multiflora rose, and japanese honeysuckle from one of the large beds. Once the area was cleared, the group was able to plant native shrubs in their place. The workday concluded with watering and placing stakes around the forest edge to protect the new shrubs that were planted. |
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07/02/2022 |
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The Washington Ave volunteers spent another morning spreading new mulch around the flowerbeds. Afterwards, Nikki did some weeding of the garden while the kids watered all of the trees and flowers. |
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07/02/2022 |
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The Cherry Ann Park volunteers had a great and productive morning planting 5 more perennials in the entrance garden! After weeding the garden, and watering last week's plants, the kids planted 3 new coralbells and 2 hostas. Then, they spread woodchips around the garden, and finished by finding rocks to line the flowerbed with. The workday concluded with pizza at Miss Connie's house. |
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07/01/2022 |
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Another big day of planting for the Friends of Sea Street Circle, as the group continues to work on filling the entire traffic circle with beautiful and drought-tolerant perennials. Today, 20 more were planted! The group then concluded another productive workday with weeding and watering. |
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06/30/2022 |
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Today, the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park started work to expand their bird garden, so that more berry bushes and perennials can be planted. We worked on removing grass around the garden in preparation for laying down new woodchips, along with weeding the current bed. After making great progress on this big project, we watered last week's plantings and selected a location to plant a tree later in the summer. |
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06/29/2022 |
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To start off a very productive workday, the Fairmont Park volunteers spread new mulch in some of the curb strip flowerbeds. Then, the group planted 9 new shrubs--5 elderberry and 4 arrowwood viburnum--along the forest at the edge of the field! To finish, the group continued the process of removing invasives, successfully clearing another area at the edge of the field where more shrubs can now be planted. |
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06/25/2022 |
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The Cherry Ann Park volunteers had another great day of stewardship and planting. While Will picked up trash around the park, the kids started weeding the second entrance garden at the park. Then, they worked together to plant and water 3 hostas and 2 coralbells, and then finished by spreading a new layer of mulch. The workday concluded with a cookout at Miss Connie's house. |
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06/25/2022 |
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The group started by unloading and spreading half a yard of mulch around the flowerbeds in the lot, with everyone playing an important role in completing the hard labor of the morning. Then, the fun part could commence, with the group choosing spots for 4 new perennials and Cali and Amir making butterfly-shaped signs to put around the garden. |
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06/24/2022 |
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Planting commenced at the Sea Street Circle this afternoon! Volunteers came out to begin planting yarrow and sedum around the traffic circle, and, with everyone working in teams, the group was successful in planting 12 of the perennials, as well as watering and weeding the entire circle. |
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06/23/2022 |
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At this week's relaxed yet productive workday, the group started with stewardship of the canoe launch garden, including weeding and pruning. Then, 5 new perennials were planted--beautiful Coreopsis and Catmint to bring some color to the garden. |
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06/23/2022 |
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Today, the Quinnipiac River volunteers finished maintenance and stewardship of the pollinator garden. The group planted 4 more perennials, 1 Daisy and 3 Coneflower, and then watered the entire garden. Weeds were also pulled, and then, the garden was edged, to create a clean-looking border around it. |
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06/18/2022 |
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On a beautiful and very productive Saturday, the kids, joined by former Greenspace intern Mitch, finished weeding the entrance garden to Cherry Ann Park, so that they could plant 4 new perennials; 3 daylilies and 1 sedum, as well as lay down fresh mulch! Meanwhile, Will picked up trash around the entire park. |
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06/18/2022 |
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06/18/2022 |
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Another successful Saturday of stewardship at Washington Ave! The group continued weeding and removing trash, and made a plan to lay down fresh mulch and plant perennials in coming weeks. |
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06/17/2022 |
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The Friends of Sea Street Circle started the workday by selecting, as a group, the perennials that they would like to plant at the circle, as well as discussing the design and layout. Then, the group finished by spreading a final layer of mulch in the center of the circle. |
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06/16/2022 |
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After maintenance last week, the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park were able to plant some perennials this week! The group planted Yarrow, Black-eyed Susans, and a Daisy in the pollinator garden. Then, we discussed our plans for maintenance and expansion of the bird garden next week, and picked a spot to plant a tree this season. |
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06/15/2022 |
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The Fairmont Park volunteers started the workday by placing stakes and logs around their perennial beds in the curb strip along the park, in order to protect the flowers from being mowed. Then, the group continued tackling the burning bush, Japanese honeysuckle, and bittersweet in the forest along the edge of the field. Lots of progress has been made to clear this area out in preparation for planting shrubs! |
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06/11/2022 |
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Today was a very productive first workday at Cherry Ann Park! Miss Connie and I were joined by three of the neighborhood children, as well as new volunteer Will, to pick up trash around the park and begin cleaning the front bed of weeds and invasive plants. By the end of the workday, the group had filled 2 bags with trash and 3 with weeds, and made great progress on the beginning-of-the-season stewardship. |
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06/11/2022 |
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This morning, a small group of volunteers began stewardship of Washington Ave; picking up trash and weeding the flowerbeds in preparation for planting in the future. |
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06/10/2022 |
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A very productive first official workday for the Friends of Sea Street Circle! The first part of the day was spent weeding. Once that was complete, 6 yards of woodchips were spread across the circle in preparation for planting in the future. |
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06/09/2022 |
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During a brief but productive walkthrough and planning meeting, Nikki and I surveyed the site and talked about the group's stewardship and planting goals for the summer. |
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06/09/2022 |
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Today, a small group of volunteers focused on stewardship of the pollinator garden at the park. We weeded the bed and then added new mulch, in order to prepare for adding more perennials later in the season. |
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06/09/2022 |
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During a successful first workday with great turnout, the group worked on the garden at the corner of Clifton St. and Quinnipiac Ave. Weeds were pulled, new mulch was laid down, and the first shrub of the season, a Mugo pine, was planted! |
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06/08/2022 |
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Another successful day of removing invasives from Fairmont Park! While Marty cut down Trees of Heaven and burning bush, the rest of the group worked on pulling out bittersweet and Japanese honeysuckle along the edge of the forest near the field. |
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06/07/2022 |
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During our first walkthrough, Rose, Sylvia, and I discussed the plan for the continued stewardship of the river garden, and the potential expansion of the flowerbed on Quinnipiac Avenue. We made a plan for our first workday this week--to do some weeding, and plant one small evergreen shrub. |
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06/04/2022 |
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During a brief but productive walkthrough and planning meeting, Nikki and I surveyed the site and talked about the group's stewardship and planting goals for the summer. |
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06/04/2022 |
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Today, I met Miss Connie for a tour of the park and discussion of our plans for the summer, which include weeding and cleaning up the gardens at the entrance of the park. We concluded by conducting outreach to some children playing in the park, explaining that they could come help us keep Cherry Ann Park beautiful during our workdays on Saturdays from 10am-12pm. |
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06/03/2022 |
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The Friends of Sea Street Circle have been working hard to make their vision of beautifying the traffic circle on Sea St a reality! Stephane and I met for an initial walk-through to survey the site and discuss the group's ambitions for the season, which include laying down new mulch and adding pollinator-friendly perennials. |
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06/03/2022 |
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During our initial walkthrough, Tom, and later Noy, showed me around the park and explained what the group had done in the past and what they hoped to accomplish this summer, including expanding on the existing pollinator and bird gardens. We set a plan to work on stewardship of the park at our first workday, next week on Thursday from 5-7pm. |
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06/01/2022 |
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During a very productive first day of the season, the Fairmont Park volunteers began removal of invasive bittersweet, Japanese honeysuckle, and burning bush in a section of the forest edge near the old baseball field. The forest edge along the field will be targeted for invasive removal this summer so that native shrubs can be planted later in the season. |