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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.
| A special holiday gift - a tree! |
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Honor the hard-to-buy-for this holiday season
with a living legacy: give the "Gift of
ReLeaf", Parkway Partners' tree replacement
campaign. Sponsorships start at $25.00. To
give the Gift of ReLeaf contact Deb Graham at
504-620-2224.
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| Holiday Plants at 2nd Saturday Sale |
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Add beautiful color to your home and yard for
the holiday season. Come by the 2nd Saturday
Sale in December and you can purchase holiday
gifts too! Poinsettias, citrus and other
trees for sale.
At 10 am John Cassidy will discuss the use of
rain gardens in the home landscape.
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| Neutral Ground Partnership |
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Community organizations, businesses and
private citizens may "adopt" a park,
playground, or neutral ground in their
neighborhood. "Adoption" requires a one year
commitment of picking up litter, and may also
include cutting grass, planting, weeding, and
watering plants materials or other
maintenance services, as agreed upon by the
sponsor and the Department of Parks and
Parkways. Each adoption is recognized by the
placement of a sign.
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| A Neighborwoods Award |
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Parkway Partners Executive Director
Jean Fahr receives the Alliance for Community
Trees Award from Fred Wacker of the Home
Depot Foundation.
Fahr attended the Arbor Day Foundation
Conference in Portland Oregon, under the
sponsorship of the Home Depot Foundation,
where she received the award recognizing the
tree planting efforts of Parkway Partners as
they work with special housing initiatives.
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Planting Orchards - A New Orleans first |
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ReLeaf Program Director Jo Ann Albrecht
transports the first load of fruit trees for
planting orchards in the Lower 9th
Ward.
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation,
Department of Parks and Parkways and Loyola
Alum teamed up with Parkway Partners to
introduce the first community orchards at
five sites around the city. The orchards
are a new concept for the city. Planting
highly productive fruit trees on vacant lots
is a lower maintenance project than community
gardens that sport herbaceous plants, yet
they will aptly support their neighborhoods'
food production.
Three of the orchards are located in the
Lower 9th Ward, one in St. Roch and one in
Gentilly. A total of 87 fig, persimmon and
citrus trees were planted and there is
interest to plant more tropical plants such
as papaya and mango when the weather warms.
For more on the orchards, read this great
article printed in the Times Picayune.
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