The Lower East Side Ecology Center is working with the Lower Eastside Girls Club to host Community Care: Stewarding Your Neighborhood, a 2-month exhibition featuring art on the theme of environmental stewardship to inspire New Yorkers to play a role in caring for their local environment.
Environmental stewardship refers to the work of individuals and communities to care for and support their local environment. The Lower East Side has a rich history of neighbors caring for and improving their landscape through the nurturing of community gardens, transforming vacant lots into botanical wonderlands, creating vibrant pockets in street tree pits, and so much more. By nurturing our local environmental spaces there is not only an enrichment of biodiversity and wildlife, but a cultivation of health and well-being for our human neighbors too.
On September 13 from 4-6pm, join us for stewardship in action and tend to local street trees. We will remove litter, aerate the soil, and apply nutrient-rich compost to the tree bed. All materials will be provided.