Sep
12
Community Greenspace End of Season Celebration
We invite all Greenspace volunteers and friends to come celebrate with a night at the Carousel in Lighthouse Park!
Lighthouse Point Carousel
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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
08/10/2019
Victims of Gun Violence16 volunteers worked together to remove invasive plants, mulch and water existing plantings.
08/08/2019
Bradley/WoosterThe group continued spreading pine bark mulch across weeded areas, and planted three more maiden grasses where there was space for them.
08/08/2019
Bradley Street Pocket ParkAnother summer goal checked off! We made the first green additions to the site. These were the toughest holes I dug over the summer! We put in some euonymus and witch hazel as border plantings to cover the chain link fence. Hopefully they will do well despite the poor soil and the heavy shade.
08/07/2019
Clifton Street River GardenToday we accomplished a major goal of the group by planting and mulching in the area at the entrance of Clifton Street. After removing a dying juniper two weeks ago, there was now space for new plants. The mix of color, evergreens, and fragrances should provide a beautiful garden-like space for most of the year. This was a very successful workday to end the summer!