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Beautification and Planting

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You can help us with our beautification and planting!

Call 828-254-1776 to volunteer, or email volunteer@ashevillegreenworks.org. You’ll receive an email each week detailing how you can volunteer. We appreciate the gift of your time. We always provide all supplies and make sure everyone has fun!

 

Here’s what we do:

  • plant trees and flowers along streets and highways and especially near speed limit signs and entryway signs
  • work with students to beautify school grounds
  • plant trees and flowers and install planters in city and county parks
  • provide funds to citizens who wish to plant or mulch a public area

Do you have a public planting project in mind? Do you see an area that would benefit from mulching? We have a seed money fund to help you. Call 828-254-1776 or email susan@ashevillegreenworks.org.

Thanks, Mast General Store!

Click here to read about a new grant Asheville GreenWorks has just received to beautify a stretch of I-240 as you approach Asheville from the west.

The funds come from Chaco Shoes, which are sold at Mast General.

Yearly Events

Every year we celebrate Arbor Day at a different location. In 2011 we celebrated at Aston Park with a tree planting ceremony.  We have celebrated at the Botanical Gardens, the N.C. Arboretum, City-County Plaza and many other locations over the past 37 years.

For the past 31 years Asheville has received the Tree City USA Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation through our work. Being designated as a Tree City means that our city maintains a Tree Commission, has a tree ordinance and has a community forestry program.

A sampling of past projects

We have helped create playgrounds, thanks to the generosity of the Janirve Foundation:

  • Jones School in North Asheville
  • Royal Pines Park off Sweeten Creek Road in South Asheville
  • Lake Louise in Weaverville
  • Magnolia Park in Montford
  • Big Ivy Community Center/Barnardsville Resource Center in North Buncombe
  • Lakewood Park in Kenilworth
  • Swannanoa Library
  • Dickson Elementary School in Montford and
  • in the Leicester Community

Click here for more recent photos