On Saturday, November 3, several residents of Ravenswood Gardens volunteered to help maintain and beautify Sunken Garden Park. Directed by Luke Ross, mulch was distributed throughout the park and native plants were added from the Northerly Island plant giveaway. Also, over 400 spring bulbs were planted with the help of Girl Scout Troop of Queen […]
Archive | Stewardship
RSS feed for this section
Beware the Emerald Ash Borer!
All citizens are alerted to look out for signs of Parks Enemy #1: The Emerald Ash Borer. The Emerald Ash Borer, or EAB, has been extremely destructive to our trees. Over 19% of Chicago’s parkway trees are ashes, and there is concern that 90,000 ash trees on Chicago’s parkways could die in the next five […]
River Day 2012 A Success
We would like to thank all those who came out on a rainy Saturday morning recently to help steward our parks for River Day. We had volunteers at Horner, Sunken Gardens and Jacob Parks on May 12. Activities included litter pick up and buckthorn removal at Horner. Between the three sites there were nearly 50 […]
Earth Day 2012 in Horner Park
Thanks to all the great volunteers who showed up to help clean up our parks for Earth Day 2012! See more photos: Earth Day 2012 at Horner Park, a flickr set by Theresa Hicks FotP Earth Day 2012, a flickr set by Kevin Anderson
