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20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping Thanks to the generosity of the Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Peabody Energy, 20 neighborhood gardens will be enhanced through our Neighbors Naturescaping program. Parks, school grounds, neighborhood entrances, medians, street barricades, vacant lots and community gardens will be planted with 8,500 […]
St. Louis will soon have more beautiful, sustainable open space!
St. Louis will soon have more beautiful, sustainable open space! Thanks to The Robert J. Trulaske, Jr. Family Foundation, Philpott Family Foundation and Emerson, St. Louis will soon have more beautiful and sustainable open space! The primary location will be the highly visible Gardens at Lake Louie along I-64 at the Chestnut/20th Street entrance into […]
Blooming in 2015 – our very own Young Friends group!
Blooming in 2015 – our very own Young Friends group! Brightside St. Louis is thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected as the 2014-2015 partner charity of Launch St. Louis! Throughout the next two years, Launch St. Louis will help us build and launch our very own Young Friends group. “This is a significant milestone […]
Saluting Ken Seher
Saluting Ken Seher At Brightside, we’re very fortunate to have great volunteers. And today, well, we’d like to salute one of those volunteers – Mr. Ken Seher! Ken has worked with Brightside for several years guiding volunteers and sharing his expertise with thousands of volunteers. He has been a part of planting annuals at the […]
We need a volunteer content writer – consider this us planting the seed!
We need a volunteer content writer – consider this us planting the seed! Brightside St. Louis is looking to add to its volunteer marketing committee with a volunteer content writer / blogger. While we’d love to tell you we have a big budget to pay you, we in fact don’t have any budget at all! […]
Brightside St. Louis Day
Brightside St. Louis Day Yep – it exists! Moving forward, we’re proud, excited and honored to announce that June 22nd has been officially proclaimed Brightside St. Louis Day in the city of St. Louis. The proclamation was made in honor of our 30th anniversary and to commemorate the completion of the Brightside St. Louis Demonstration […]
Brightside Combats Vandals to Protect Neighborhoods
Brightside Combats Vandals to Protect Neighborhoods Brightside’s Graffiti Eradication team has been hard at work cleaning up the work of those who vandalize homes, businesses and other structures. It took this team of two almost an hour to remove 200 square feet of graffiti from this highly-visible location on South Jefferson. To protect the community […]
Community Education Fair a tremendous success!
Community Education Fair a Tremendous Success! Thanks to all of the fantastic organizations that participated in this year’s community education fair in our Demonstration Garden. Thanks to them, this year’s event made for a fun, educational day in the garden. Visitors were able to learn a great deal from our area’s leading sustainability and gardening […]