Elmhurst Clean & Green

Our 1st Family Fun Day in conjuction with our Farmers’ Market will be held this Sunday, August 1 from 11am-2pm at Davis Park.  The YMCA will be there with their ‘Y on the Move’, a 35′ inflatable obstacle course.  There is a new playground and basketball court for the kids and we will also have face painting.   

While at the Park, shop for your fresh, local produce, herbs, flowers and plants!

The Farmers’ Market will be running every Sunday from 11-2pm through Halloween and we will have a Family Fun Day once a month with activities for the kids.  Come out and support our local farmers! 

If you’d like to be added to our email distribution list for updates on our organization, or you’d like to volunteer at a Market, Family Fun Day or for one of our other projects, please ‘Contact Us’. 

Hope to see you on Sunday at Davis Park!

Looks like our weather today will be fine so we WILL have our market after all.  See you at Davis Park 11-2pm.

We may decide to cancel tomorrow’s market due to the forecast of possible thunderstorms with high winds.  Will let you know soon!

Our 2nd annual Farmers’ Market at Davis Park is being held Sundays from 11am-2pm through October 31st.  Davis Park is located at the corner of Raymond and Chalkstone Sts.  Come join the fun, support our farmers and local artisans and bring the family!  There is a new playground there for the kids.

On Sunday 8/1, in conjunction with the market, we will hold our first Family Fun Day with lots of kid’s activities.

Volunteers are needed on Arbor Day, Friday 4/30 at 8:30 am to help plant eight trees and put down mulch on the Pleasant Valley Parkway.   

If you are available, please ‘Contact Us’ via this website.  Thank you!

Next Saturday, April 24 we are holding our annual Earth Day event in conjunction with PC’s Service Day.  We are very pleased that along with PC students we will be joined by a group of JWU students.   All volunteers are welcome – come for as long as you can – even an hour will help!

9:00 am - Meet at Davis Park.  Coffee and snack provided.
9:15 am  – Register, get assignment and t-shirt (first 125 volunteers).
10: 00 am – With ‘group leaders’, depart to project location
12:00 noon – Finish up.  Lunch will be provided at Davis Park.

Our projects include painting the concession stand, bleachers and benches, and cleaning up Davis Park and cleaning certain areas of Elmhurst and Smith Hill.   Unfortunately we cannot complete the tasks that we had scheduled for Fargnoli Park as it is opening day for baseball, but hope to do so in the near future.

Come join in the fun and community spirit and help make our neighborhoods a better place to live and work!  If you have any questions, feel free to ‘Contact Us’ through our web site.  See you at the Park!

Our next meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, 4/13 at 7pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor. 

Topics of discussion will include:

Earth Day event 4/24

Update on:

Farmers’ Market, Community Garden, Merchant’s Association. 

Pleasant Valley Parkway projects

Hope to see you there!  

If you have any questions, are interested in joining EC&G or volunteering, please ‘Contact Us’ via this web site.

Anyone interested in being involved in facilitating a merchant’s association in Elmhurst, please let us know.  We have quite a few businesses interested so far.  For further information, please visit the City of Providence’s web site, www.providenceri.com under ‘neighborhoods’.  We will provide additional information here in the near future.

We are very excited to announce that we are holding our 2nd annual Farmers’ Market at Davis Park beginning Sunday July 11 through Sunday October 31.  Our times have changed….we will be beginning at 11:00am and running until 2:00pm.   Several of the vendors will be returning including Schartner Farm, Mazie’s Organic Catering and Fruit Hill Apiaries to name a few, plus many new vendors. 

New this year will be Family Fun Days, held once a month during the markets, the first scheduled for July 11.  FFD’s will include music, kid’s activities and lots of surprises.

If you are interested in volunteering or being a vendor, please ‘contact us’. 

We can’t wait to get started!  See you at the park!

We are holding our annual Earth Day celebration event on Saturday,  April 24th from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm.  Everyone is welcome!  Any time that you can commit would be great…even an hour would help.  Joining us once again will be the fantastic students from Providence College!

We’ll be cleaning up sections of some of the major streets such as Smith, Oakland, Chalkstone and Convent, priming the concession stand at Davis Park and planting some shrubs, trees and flowers.

If you can’t make it this time, please consider going out on your own at some point to pick up some trash or whatever else you can do to improve our parks and neighborhood!

Thank you very much everyone and please let us know if you have any questions.  More info to follow soon….keep checking our web site!