Community Tree Care - Davee Gardens Fitness Park

Trees for a Healthier Future!
Tree canopy coverage is an important asset to urban areas - creating healthier, safer, and more connected communities. From cleaning our air and filtering our water, to slowing down storm surge and flooding in our city streets, trees also provide shade that can cool neighborhoods by up to 10 degrees, helping to prevent heat-related deaths and illessess in urban areas that suffer from heat island effect. Green spaces and park settings are also linked to better health outcomes, such as reducing stress-related mental health issues, improving overall health development in children, as well as encouraging physical activity in all ages.
Join the City of Richmond's Parks & Rec and our community partners for some tree care, litter pick up, and beautification of Davee Gardens Fitness Park, located in Southside.
Volunteer Duties & Responsibilities:
Volutneers will be assisting staff from Parks & Rec in various tasks such as weeding, spreading mulch, and litter pick up. Volunteers may want to bring along sunscreen or a head covering, as well as a refillable water bottle (and snack if needed). Accompanied and supervised children are allowed (with a signed waiver) but please no pets! Email Qui.Nguyen@rva.gov for the youth waiver.
Qualifications, Skills, & Requirements:
Tools and gloves will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own gloves if preferred. Closed toed shoes are required. We ask that volunteers wear comfortable clothing that they don’t mind getting dirty, muddy, or snagged. No prior experience or special skills necessary, though some lifting (max. 50lbs), kneeling, bending, stooping, digging, hauling, pushing, pulling and yanking, walking long distances across uneven grassy lawns, and possibly working on sloped terrain will be requi