In a written letter posted Sunday via social media, Environmental Shade Tree Commission Chair Tom Pivinski announced a new garden is underway along Fifth Avenue at Sunset Lake, west of Veterans Park.  “In response to the domestic terrorism in our country and our city, the Friends of the Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] […]

The City’s Environmental and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] will hold its Annual Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday. ESTC members and volunteers maintain the city’s green spaces and gardens from March through October. This includes planting, weeding, cleanups, small tree trimming and pruning. The featured gardens include: The Rain Garden, located at Main […]

America’s oldest national nonprofit conservation organization kicked off the ground work for their “Community ReLeaf” program in Asbury Park Saturday, planting two scores worth of trees on the west side of town. Residents and members of the city’s Environmental and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC], along with representatives from American Forests, the New Jersey Tree Foundation[NJTF], […]

By the end of September, Asbury Park will see the first new trees planted through American Forests’ efforts to study and improve the overall tree canopy and green structure in the city. American Forests, the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country, is leading the effort as part of their “Community ReLeaf” program to […]

Kadijah Valentine, a reporter from PulseAP, recently visited the city’s Community Garden to interview members of the Environmental and Shade Tree Commission — and sample some of the fruits of their labor. Valentine [pictured above, left, with gardener Rachel Hirschfeld]  learned about the garden and the volunteer group that keeps it up and running. She […]