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Third Green Corps Graduation Marks Program Milestone
Representatives from the US Forest Service, DC Mayor Vincent Gray, and DDOT Director Terry Bellamy joined the celebration congratulating the latest class of DC Green Corps trainees on their graduation. Read the press release or download it here.
Community Harvest Festival
Parks & People's North Columbia Heights Green, an exciting model community garden transformed out of a long-blighted vacant lot, held its second annual Community Harvest Festival on Saturday, November 5, 2011. The day was an opportunity for local residents to enjoy and discover the green as well as to celebrate all the many ways that Parks & People and its partners are advancing urban agriculture and community health across the capital. More
Marvin Gaye Park Grows Stronger
Washington Parks & People, DC Parks and Recreation, and our partners are celebrating the tenth anniversary of our Down by the Riverside campaign at Marvin Gaye Park. This has become the largest community park revitalization in DC history, with over 60,000 volunteers helping to remove over 6 million pounds of trash and debris to open the way for a healthy, thriving green corridor Improvements include a new 1.6-mile trail, a restored stream channel, the Marvin Gaye Amphitheater, fitness course, Riverside Healthy Living Center, Marvin Gaye Community Greening Center, bike repair station, Play Garden, farm market, and the first new public playground in this neighborhood in 30 years. In addition to new reports in the Washington Post and a cover feature in Parks and Recreation magazine, Marvin Gaye Park is the focus of a new study documenting the long-term health benefits that the playground and surrounding park are now bringing to the people of this long under-served community.