Join Us for Community Gardening and Clean-Up Days on the grounds of the historic Ten Broeck Mansion!
Help keep our historic gardens looking their finest and open to our community! We need your help to pick up trash and debris, remove invasive plants, tidy our gardens, gather sticks and branches, rake leaves, bag up the collected material, and plant historic and indigenous plants and bulbs. Your help keeps our historic gardens open to our community and provides a safe and inviting setting for our 100% free family education programs.
Who Can Participate?
Everyone: Individuals, families, and friends – including teens and children ages 8 and up
Community Groups: Neighborhood associations, clubs, schools, and churches/places of worship
Special Opportunity for Businesses and Organizations: This is a fantastic way to promote your work while giving back! We invite your business or organization to sponsor a Garden or Clean-Up Day. As a sponsor, you’ll receive:
A custom Certificate of Appreciation
Exclusive Social Media Coverage of your support
Business Partner Sponsorship Options Include: Monetary donations, donations of supplies, and/or a group of volunteers from your organization participating in the event (average of 1.5-2 hours, longer times available) – a great team-building experience for your employees.
Join us in making our historic gardens a beautiful, welcoming space for everyone.
Wish list for 2025:
Contractor (trash) bags
Multi-packs of garden-weight gloves
Trash grippers
Heavy-duty, new (or like new) garden trimming or pruning shears
Please email us about these and other garden needs.
Special Projects for 2025:
Invasive Plant Species Removal
Erosion Control
Helping care for our sidewalk herb garden
Other projects available!
Opportunities:
Friday Garden Days: 9:30-11:30 am (first and third Fridays): focus on light gardening (planting, mulching, weeding, thinning plants). Gardeners of all abilities welcome. We welcome those new to gardening and can provide training.
Saturdays Clean-up Days 9:30-11:30 am (first and third Saturdays): focus on grounds, trash-pick up, stick-pick up, light raking. All abilities welcome.
Please dress as outlined below. Gloves are provided or bring your own. Hats and sunscreen are recommended.
Ages 8-16 are welcome, but must be supervised by a parent at all times. Ages 16-18 must have a parent or guardian’s signature on our permission form (provided at check-in).
Refreshments provided. To help cut down on plastics, please bring your own water bottle if possible.
Free parking in our off-street parking lot off Livingston Avenue. Directions: Use GPS address 136 Livingston Avenue.