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!

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.

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!

Date:  Tuesday 3/9/10

Time:  7:00-8:30 p.m.

Location:  Providence College (Room 405 of the Feinstein Building)

Agenda:  We are trying a new format this month. We will begin with brief introductions and then we will break into subgroups to work on the various projects. (You pick the project you are most interested in, or pick more than one.)  We will then meet as a group to give updates on our projects and discuss new business.

We hope you will join us. If you haven’t attended a meeting before, we look forward to meeting you.

Bob McMahon/Parks Dept. have started construction of the new walking path and ballfield at Davis Park.  Coming soon, solar lighting and black iron fence along Chalkstone. 

Christine, President of PC’s student environmental group recruited about 15 students who finished painting the front fence at Fargnoli Park.  Looks great and thanks so much to the student volunteers!

A few of us met with Amintha Cinotti from the Providence Planning & Development department and will soon have information to pass along to Elmhurst businesses regarding the benefits of establishing a merchant’s association. 

A beautiful new ‘Elmhurst’ sign for the Eaton/Smith island has been designed and will be made by our member, Larry Pavese.   It will be installed early next spring.  Anna and I planted some tulips and daffodils around the monument so it should look nice!  More landscaping in the spring as well.

Several people questioned why trees were cut down on the Parkway.  We have found out that they were diseased.  Heidi is working on applications for obtaining free trees from the City.  We will be looking for volunteers in the spring to help plant them.  

Speaking of free trees, Dec. 1 is the deadline to submit applications for free trees for neighborhood streets.  All that is needed is 5 neighbors per street to agree to have trees planted in front of their homes and to help plant and water them.  If you are interested, you still have time!    Please visit the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program’s web site for more info at www.pnpp.org.  Folks, these are beautiful, tall, mature trees of many different varieties…not little saplings!

We will soon start planning next season’s farmers’ market.  It will be much bigger and even better than our first.  If you’d like to be on the sub- committee, please let us know at contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org.

We would like to see some holiday/winter decorations on Smith St.   If you have any ideas or contributions or can volunteer, please also let us know at our contact address.

Our next EC&G meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor.  Please see our map of PC for location.

As always, thank you for your support, and best wishes to all for a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Topics of discussion will include:

Update on Davis Park projects

Recap on farmers markets

Discuss future tree planting initiatives

Information re: recycling event with City

Update on forming a merchant’s association

Update on Eaton Island project

Miscellaneous/new business (time allowing)

Hope to see you there!

Our last farmers market and fall community fair went very well yesterday.  The weather was just beautiful and everyone enjoyed being outdoors, shopping, hearing about services from local organizations, meeting new friends and visiting with neighbors.  We were extremely pleased to have join us Mayor David Cicilline, State Representative Joanne Giannini and Councilman Terry Hassett.   It was a great day and great first season!  Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who helped yesterday and throughout.   Thank you as well to Mark Sweeney from The 02908 Club, Anthony from Big Tony’s and to the vendors who donated gift certificates and items for our raffle.  We appreciate your support!

A few EC&G folks and PC students braved the rain on Saturday to help Valentina and others plant trees throughout Elmhurst.  You can see some of the trees on River Ave…they look great.

Lastly, we have re-scheduled our clean up and Fargnoli Park fence painting for this Saturday, 10/31 from 11:00am-1:00pm.  Please let us know if you can help - contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org.  Thank you!