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Join us on may 4 to celebrate baltimore’s first preserved community forest!
Join us on may 4 to celebrate baltimore’s first preserved community forest! Join us on May 4 to celebrate Baltimore’s first preserved community forest! Fairwood Forest is a beautiful 4-acre forest with more than 20 species of native trees, and a strong community that has rallied around it. We’re so excited to celebrate the preservation […]
10 years of baltimore green space
10 years of Baltimore Green Space It’s hard for us to believe…but Baltimore Green Space is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! What do we have to show for it? We’ve preserved 9 community-managed open spaces in neighborhoods from East Baltimore to Pigtown to Hanlon Park to Remington…and more. Our sites are directly connected to […]
father to a forest
Father to a forest Like Butch Berry, plenty of people are sad that kids “don’t know how to play in the woods anymore.” But Butch, who leads the restoration of Springfield Woods, is actually doing something about it. He’s pulling out poison ivy and cutting paths, and getting neighbors into the woods to experience nature […]
a neighborhood father in hanlon park
A neighborhood father in Hanlon Park There never would have been a garden if Warren “Johnny” Shaw hadn’t gotten a summons from Baltimore City in 2008 to clean up an abandoned lot he didn’t even own. In fact, the City owned it, but the lot was an eyesore and Johnny agreed that it needed to […]
land and well-being – and taxes
Baltimore’s new sustainability plan Just off the busy intersection at North and Greenmount Avenues is Brentwood Commons, a peaceful park with trees, grass, and flowering shrubs. Since this tiny space was created from the ruins of an abandoned garage, all the alley houses facing it have been rehabbed or purchased for rehab. In West Baltimore […]
bird walk bash!
Bird walk bash! The birding experts leading the walk, Dan and Georgia from the Baltimore Bird Club, lower expectations as they hand out a sheet of paper depicting common birds of Baltimore. The spring migration has been and gone and there might not much to see other than the usual robins, cardinals, crows, and house […]
working the woods!
Baltimore’s new sustainability plan November was a busy month for forest patches! Baltimore Green Space and three of its forest patches teamed up with the co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega of Johns Hopkins University for a vine removal, a planting, and a “trash harvest.” In all, 36 volunteers removed 46 bags of vines and […]
protecting play
Protecting play They say you don’t appreciate what you’ve got until you lose it – but the residents of Baltimore’s Greenmount West neighborhood are doing their best to stay ahead of the game. McAllister Park steward Cory Adcock-Camp and her neighbors have asked Baltimore Green Space to preserve their fenced-in grassy park where children play […]
researchers in the woods
Researchers in the woods What happens when Baltimore Green Space, UMBC and the U.S. Forest Service team up to put researchers in Baltimore’s neighborhood forest patches? Only good things – and nobody even got poison ivy! Right now the woods are dormant…enjoy this throwback to our summer. This past summer we surveyed ten community forest […]
