ReLeaf New Orleans with Parkway Partners Newsletter
October 1, 2009

Green Greetings

Parkway Partners is proudly certified by the Louisiana Association of Non-profit Organizations. Parkway Partners works closely with the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways but does not receive any funding from the city. We rely on contributions from the private sector to enable our many programs. All contributions are tax-exempt.

October 2009
  • National NeighborWoods Month Kicks-0ff Tree Planting Season
  • Native plants for wildlife ~ Indoor plants sale ~ Large bargain table!
  • Students visit local community garden

    • Native plants for wildlife ~ Indoor plants sale ~ Large bargain table!
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    Discover which native plants and trees foster wildlife during winter months at our October 10th, 2nd Saturday Sale. National Wildlife Backyard Habitat information will be available too.

    Speaker - writer, avid gardener and birder, and nurse - Charlotte Seidenberg at 10 am.

    Fall Color! Native and berried plants and trees, indoor plants, citrus trees, chrysanthemums, petunias, vegetables, and herbs. Bromeliad Bonanza - nothing over $5. Lots of other bargain plants too!


    Students visit local community garden
    warren eastern

    Recently several classes made their way to the Parkway Partners community garden on Clio including Warren Easton pictured (here) and Ecole Bilingue pictured (below)

    The students toured the garden run by Philip Soulet and learned about composting and raising chickens.

    Classes who wish to schedule a visit to the Clio garden should email Philip at nolagardener@live.com.

    Schoolyard gardens are currently at Benjamin Franklin High School, Lusher Elementary School, Lusher High School McDonogh 15, Lafayette Academy Edward Hynes School, The International School of Louisiana


    National NeighborWoods Month Kicks-0ff Tree Planting Season
    standing man

    October to March is tree-planting season in southeast Louisiana, and Parkway Partners will celebrate the milestone at its annual Feast With the Stars to be held Sunday, October 11th at historic Gallier Hall.

    Tickets available online here or call 504-620-2224 to order by phone.

    Join us for the fun, where we'll kick off National NeighborWoods Month and celebrate our work with live jazz, a silent auction and fine cuisine from the city's most renowned restaurants. The ReLeaf New Orleans room is sponsored by the Alliance for Community Trees and the Home Depot Foundation.

    Proud and secure in the knowledge that concerted activity can overcome almost any odds, New Orleans residents have worked together with Parkway Partners to reforest the city and have reintroduced more than 6,000 trees back in to the New Orleans landscape. This year's ReLeaf efforts emphasize the eastern areas of the city and Brechtel/Joe Brown parks.

    Please join us at the Feast to celebrate our progress and to kick-off another successful tree planting season.

    Congrutulations to Gillian Knowles who won a pair of tickets to Feast 2009.

    See the auction donors and food and spirit purveyors here . . .
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