GreenScape is a City of Annapolis and community partnership investment of beautification, clean-up, and planting in public spaces throughout the City (the Annapolis version of Earth Day). For three decades, hundreds of projects have been initiated and adopted by individuals, community groups, and neighborhood associations. GHCA and some neighboring friends have set up special activities within our neighborhood to coordinate with the the City’s GreenScape event. Jim Martin, Keanuú Smith-Brown, and Bob Waldman are heading up projects in Germantown and Homewood for GreenScape! Help us to plan for the day by signing up when and where you’d like to work. We’ll have coffee and donuts for you, meet your neighbor, get stuff done, and have a helluva good time!
HOMEWOOD
9:00AM-11:00AM at the S. Cherry Grove bridge. Volunteers will cut back vines and fish old plastic bottles and trash out of the Creek under and around the footbridge. Others will loosen soil and prepare it for planting flowers. Volunteers should bring gloves, old shoes, coveralls/waders, shovels, crowbars, especially cutting tools like loppers, pruners, hedge trimmers, and saws. If you have a crab net that would be helpful as well. Antonia Barry and Jim Martin are project leaders.
10:30AM start time at the Fowlkes’ Community Park at the end of McGuckian adjacent to Ceremony Coffee. Trash will be picked up, flower beds will be cultivated with topsoil/mulch, and additional new flowers/plants will be planted. The Park is dedicated to Lyle and Gilda Fowlkes who live next to the park in honor of their service to the Annapolis Community and to youth programs at the City’s Rec and Parks Department. Please bring any gardening materials/tools you have that may help with the project (i.e. masks, gloves, shovels, rakes). Keanuú Smith-Brown is coordinating.
GERMANTOWN
9:30AM meeting time at Studio 39 circle. The Germantown projects are primarily in Poplar Park. Our primary focus will be on Glen Ave and Bulletin Board Plaza, but the more people come, the more projects will appear. Dress appropriately and bring tools appropriate for what you want to do. A weed whacker to trim back liriope would be helpful. Bob Waldman is coordinating.
If you are interested, please fill out this survey and/or send your information and offer to assist to [email protected]. Although we would love for you to complete the survey/registration ahead of time, you may also just show up on the day of the event, if you weren’t able to register earlier.
For more details on the GreenScape citywide program, click on link below.
