Youth empowerment through environmental work in Syracuse, NY
Saturday Oct 26th, 2019 Onondaga Earth Corps partners with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Onondaga County Save the Rain, and Syracuse City Parks to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the City of Syracuse being part of the Tree City USA program. About 88 trees were planted along the Phase II portion of the Creek Walk. Over 95 volunteers from all over …
Register for Encore 2019, November 9, 2019 at Saint Lucy’s Auditorium on 421 Gifford St. $60/person, $5/children 16 and under.
Onondaga Earth Corps in LocalSYR News channel 9 airing after the October Fundraising Brunch in Fayetteville, NY. To read the article please see: Onondaga Earth Corps Connecting Community Through Improving the Environment
Through popular demand, please check out our most recent list of Community Tree Planting events for the fall! Get your work boots on and join us for these different volunteer events. Make sure to RSVP and share with your friends 😉 Rain or shine we’ll be planting!
Check out our crew in this news video about the iapologize Memorial Garden Tree Planting. Special thanks to iapologize Founder Rashawn Sullivan for letting us be a part of this great experience! https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2019/09/22/teens-gunned-down-last-year-remembered
OEC crews have been out and about in Syracuse looking for new locations to plant trees. In a process called “siting”, the crews measure yard space to determine whether a tree can be planted in a resident’s “tree lawn” (the space between the sidewalk and the road). If you are eligible to have a tree planted in your yard, you …
https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2019/09/grand-collaboration-put-hundreds-of-city-kids-to-work-this-summer-your-letters.html
Earth Corps Encore is Onondaga Earth Corps’ annual fundraiser, where we celebrate the many youth and young adults that come through our program. At our event this year, attendees should expect to meet and hear from current crew members, alumni, and OEC staff. Dinner and Entertainment is also provided. The crews have been hard at work planting trees, weeding, cleaning …
SYRACUSE, NY- An invasive species management project has begun this week at Schiller Park’s Roundtop in the Northside of Syracuse and will take place until August 13th. Mayor Ben Walsh will be making an appearance at Schiller Park’s Roundtop on August 13th from 2:30PM to 3:00PM to speak about the importance of the work that is being done and to …