Aug
2
Annual Greenspace Bus Tour
This event is free and open to the public. However, registration is necessary to ensure you get a seat on the buses.
bus tour begins and ends at City Hall
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Community Greenspace Groups Need YOU! Commmunity Greenspace celebrates 25 years!
Get involved! Community Groups: Apply today!
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New Haven: Request a Tree!
URI GREENSKILLS WILL PLANT YOUR free tree. Click here.
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Transforming Communities through Greening
URI is a not-for-profit university partnership. Learn more and support this work.
Get Involved
URI offers paid Greenspace and GreenSkills internships for Yale students, as well as for New Haven high school students and adults with a history that includes incarceration.
One of the most valuable contributions is your time. Most of URI's volunteer opportunities are with Greenspace in the summer. We host a few special workdays in the spring and fall.
Your contribution will support job training for teens and formerly incarcerated adults while improving our environment through tree planting and green space revitalization. Proceeds will provide internships, tools, compost, mulch and trees.
Thanks to a partnership with the City of New Haven's Parks, Recreation and Trees Department we are happy to plant street trees for New Haven residents with our GreenSkills crews.
Greenspace Log
06/22/2019
Cherry Ann St.This week we cleaned out the entrance and made some new plantings. The entrance looks much neater now. We also did some significant weeding of Japanese knotweed by the fence. That revealed previous years' plantings and opened up the space a lot more. Miss Connie's friend also turned up to help out and it was much appreciated.
06/22/2019
Victims of Gun ViolenceThe group cut vines, knocked down knotweed, and removed other invasives from the forested area. The river is now clearly visible from the sidewalk.
06/22/2019
Winthrop Daylight ProjectThe Daylight Planters began their first workday with the unpleasant stuff: picking up trash on the sidewalk and street from Goffe Terrace to Whalley Ave. We then planted daylilies, hostas, and purple sage in decorative whiskey barrels and underneath telephone poles, where they won't be at risk of trampling.
06/22/2019
Orchard StreetWe cleaned out all the leaf piles in the lot and also did some weeding by the back garden. Overall it was a productive day and next week we can begin doing further weeding and planning for future plantings. The group's energy was high and we look forward to more people showing up next week.