Commmunity Greenspace celebrates 25 years!
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Transforming Communities through Greening
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Come see New Haven's newest park! Discover what an urban oasis is and the importance of native plants for habitat and pollinators. Learn how to plant wildflower seeds. This event is free and open to the public.
Cherry Ann Park
Join us as we celebrate 25 years of support from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the City of New Haven for URI's Community Greenspace program.
Farmington Canal Greenspace
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.
07/20/2019
Arch StreetIt was a very hot and humid day, but Cindy came out to the Greenspace anyway! The dead tree we had been trying to get removed was dropping a lot of branches this week, so we decided it was not safe for children to be around -- especially combined with intense heat. It was also too hot to be very physically active, so we did not do any maintenance or cleanup work. Instead, we planned for the coming week and I (Lexi, the intern) talked with Arthur Natalino (LCI neighborhood specialist) about removing the dead tree again.
07/19/2019
East Rock ParkThe Friends of East Rock Park worked alongside the Youth at Work high schoolers lead by Kenyanna Martin. We worked on restoring Betty's way by removing invasives from the trail and liberated young trees. We also started some plantings by the benches.
07/17/2019
Mill River TrailWe put up a sandwich board for community outreach on Grand Avenue, watered shrubs and trees, planted an American Linden and perennials around the Urban Oasis sign, and spread mulch around the American Linden after planting!
07/17/2019
Beaver Ponds ParkDespite forecasts of thunderstorms, we were lucky to continue our workday as usual. We continued to weed out the pondside garden and added a few perennials. We cut down some brush to open up sight lines to the pond, and the benches by them. Wineberries were fruiting this week so we also had a lot of fun gathering them.