Initiatives and Impact
Community Garden Days Summer 2026
Vermont Avenue and Park Road intersection in November 2020. This was three years prior to the Urban Forest Alliance’s work to restore this area and create a native plant garden.
Your lawn is not your living room: Leave some leaves for winter habitat protection!
Lawn as living room, complete with manufactured grass. Let the outdoors be the outdoors to help nature thrive!
(Photo by Will Goodman @carbonmonoxide on Unsplash)
But it’s so Prreetty!! BEWARE! Lesser Celandine
Lesser celandine invading along Lorraine Avenue in Franklin Park, McLean.
How to leave the leaves…and why!
County leaf collection is expected to end after the 2023-2024 season.
It was a behemoth of a job…and there’s more to do! Together, let’s take this further!
Native pollinator garden installed on October 7, 2023.
Fall tree campaign 2023!
Let’s get planting to restore the ‘park’ and the ‘forest’ in Franklin Park and Franklin Forest!
