Elmhurst Clean & Green

Here are some pictures of our group.

On Saturday, October 16th, thanks to Providence Neighborhood Planting Program 35 street trees were planted in Elmhurst. Information and application about this organization are available at pnpp.org. A picture from the planting is below.

Here are some pictures from Neighborhood Improvement Day on October 31.

I know this is a little late, but here are some pictures from the tree planting on October 24. Pictures by Jen Schroth.

Here are some pictures from the final Farmers Market of 2009, held on Sunday, October 25.

We had another very successful farmers market at Davis Park today with over 250 people attending. We have a few more vendors now, as well as students from LaSalle Academy’s Environmental Society selling flowers and herbs that they grew in their garden at the school. Our vendors are now selling fruit, vegetables, flowers, plants, pumpkins, [...]

On Monday June 8th, two gardeners volunteered to meet the compost delivery truck around 1pm and were surprised to find the water pipe installers busy at work with dirt compiled up at the location for the compost pile. Fortunately, the compost delivery truck was about 15 minutes late, and the pipe installers, once they knew [...]

On May 30, 2009, the Davis Park Community Garden was launched with first member workday.  21 garden beds were built, (16) 4’ x 10’, (2) 10 x 10 and (3) 4’ x 4’.  All but one small bed have caretakers who have agreed to abide by the rules of the garden, signed a contract and [...]