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Brightside Spring Photo Contest!
Spring is here! Let’s celebrate with a fun photo contest! Even while we are apart, we can share the joy and beauty of Spring together! 😎 Now through April 30th, share photos with Brightside of Spring blooms in your yard, neighborhood garden or local park. 📷✨ All photo submissions will be entered in the contest. The top […]
March Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for March. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
Demonstration Garden Work Days – Volunteers Needed!
Help Brightside keep the Demonstration Garden in top shape! Join us Thursday mornings beginning March 5 from 9am – 11am or Every second Saturday morning beginning April 11 from 9am – Noon Activities include pulling weeds, planting flowers, spreading mulch, etc. Please dress appropriately for the weather and consider bringing a refillable water bottle, hat, […]
Volunteers Needed! Sow Blitz Blooms!
Every year, well over a hundred thousand flower seedlings are planted around the city in public spaces. This is thanks to neighborhood groups doing Blitz Clean-up projects and then organizing planting days to help beautify thier neighobhoods. To have these seedlings ready, Brightside needs your help! What: Sow Blitz Blooms seedlings Where: The Greenhouse in Forest Park […]
“Green Dogs” St. Patrick’s Day Clean Up in Dogtown
**EVENT CANCELLED** Volunteers Needed! Purpose: Although the city cleans up Dogtown after the celebration, hundreds of bottles and cans still run into the sewer during the festivities. The Green Dogs are there to prevent those party fouls! Last year, they diverted about 1,000 cans and bottles from the sewers. When: Just before noon on Tuesday, […]
February Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for February. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
2020 Sustainable Garden and Kitchen Seminar
“A topic and expert for every interest” Join MU Extension specialists and experts from around the region for a day packed with 16 different class options, lunch sourced from local farmers, and a keynote address from Author/Farmer/Artist Crystal Stevens on “Reducing the carbon footprint of your home and garden.” From making compost and compost tea, […]
Louie?
Most visitors to downtown never knew the little lake with the fountain on “Highway 40” had a name. But Brightside volunteers and supporters did. They know it as Lake Louie. While some might think it is in honor of our city’s namesake, King Louis IX of France, they would be mistaken. (Although, it’s a good […]