Have you noticed that the corner of Oakland and Smith is clean once again and has been landscaped? What about the traffic island on Chalkstone in front of the hospital? Weeded and mulched…you can actually see the perennials! Yes indeed…all thanks to our hard working and dedicated volunteers. Thank you all! Another improvement you may [...]
Only one week to go until our Farmers’ Market at Fargnoli Park opens! The Market will be held each Sunday from 11am until 2pm beginning June 12 through October 30, 2011. Our local farmers, businesses and artisans will be selling: Organic and traditional veggies and fruit Raw honey Jams, jellies, preserves Pies Vegan sweets Organic juice and smoothies [...]
Please join us next Saturday, April 9th for our 4th annual Earth Day neighborhood beautification event! We will be meeting at Twitchell Park on Oakland Ave. between 10:30-10:45 am for coffee, snacks and instructions. The park is located between Smith St. and Chalkstone Ave., across the street from the Nathanael Greene School. There is parking on Higgins St., [...]
Check out our new Facebook page. If you’re a member of the Facebook group, you should “like” our page as we will be using that. http://www.facebook.com/ElmhurstCleanAndGreen
Farmers’ Market 2011 We have exciting news! We are moving our Farmers’ Market to Fargnoli Park on Smith St., Elmhurst next summer. We believe that this location will draw more people as it is walkable for many and in a highly visible and well traveled location. The vendors will be set up on the Jastram Street side of the park [...]
Greetings everyone! Well 2011 is here and many of you may be thinking about what your New Year’s resolution will be. If it happens to be to volunteer in the community, than I have a proposal for you! Or if you’d just like to see a greener, cleaner and safer neighborhood, the same holds true! [...]
Sadly, this Sunday will be our last Farmers’ Market for the season! This will be your last opportunity to pick up locally grown organic produce and home made baked goods from Oakdale Farm, raw honey products from Fruit Hill Apiaries, organic juice, smoothies and hot cider from Providence Juice, hand made organic granola from Providence Granola, [...]
Our clean-up event on October 2nd went really well and what a great group we had! In addition to cleaning many of the area streets we also planted a garden in front of Nathanael Greene School and weeded many of the tree wells on Smith St. We had over 60 people participating! A huge thank you to our dedicated EC&G volunteers, teachers, [...]
Greetings Folks! This Saturday 10/2 is our next neighborhood clean up. We are meeting at Nathanael Greene Middle School (Raymond St. side) at 9:30 am for coffee and instructions and will get started at 10:00 am. We hope that you will consider helping out for as long as you are able. Bags and gloves will be [...]
We are excited to have several new vendors joining us at our Farmers’ Market. Providence Granola and Providence Juice have started and next week Cup ‘N Rol, with delicious cupcakes and coffee, will be starting. These are all new Providence businesses folks – please check them out on line to learn more about the good work that they are [...]
