Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans

Laffite Greenway Volunteer Opportunity
2021-08-28 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Greenway Plaza, 500 N. Norman C. Francis Parkway, New Orleans
Come join us in picking up trash, clearing overhanging branches, and pulling non-native weeds from our bioswales. Meet up at the Greenway Plaza, where we will be divided into groups and sent down both directions of the Greenway.
While we will be able to provide some pruners, saws and trash pickers, we encourage you to bring over any you have at home in order to support this event.
Also don’t forget to bring:
-Water bottle (it will be hot!)
-Closed toe shoes
-Pants, not shorts (to protect your legs from overgrown vegetation)
-Clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty
-Gloves
-Face mask
We are excited to see you there and get this important work done! The Greenway Stewardship Program is supported by Archer Daniels Midland, Cox, and the EPA Gulf of Mexico Division.
Click here.for more information
Thanks,
Debbie de la Houssaye, Board member of Friends of the Lafitte Greenway

NPI In-Person Membership Meeting
2021-05-16 09:00 - 11:00 | Rosa Keller Library, 4300 S Broad Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 70125, United States
NPI-GNO is missing our members! On Sunday May 16th at 9:00 am, we will have our 1st in-person meeting since last year! Let’s meet in the courtyard of the Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center, corner of General Pershing and Napoleon Ave., weather permitting, (watch the NPI Facebook page for notifications.) Off-street parking is available in the library’s lot at 4300 S. Broad.
After a very full and informative meeting, and some time to greet new and old friends with refreshments, everyone will have the opportunity to observe the Keller Library Mini-Prairie AND the Broadmoor Rain Gardens, 3601 General Taylor (2 blocks away), maintained by Tulane University’s Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Please bring your mask, a lawn chair, a personal non-disposable drink container, and maybe an umbrella – the Broadmoor Garden is only 2 blocks away. Opportunities to renew memberships or become a new member will be available. We simply cannot wait to see everyone again!

ST. ANTHONY GREEN STREETS AND PUBLIC ART - Gatto Playground
2021-05-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Gatto Playground, 1929 Wildair St, 1929 Wildair Street, New Orleans, LA, 70122, United States
We are excited to resume in-person community events for both St. Anthony Green Streets and the Public Art Projects in the Gentilly Resilience District.
On May 15, Artists Langston Allston, Courtney Egan, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Ashley Pridmore will lead hands-on creative activities for all ages focused on the themes of water, remembrance, adaptation, and ecology. Photographer Jose Cotto will be taking portraits of neighborhood residents that they can take home with them, and the portraits may also be featured — with permission — as part of a temporary display at Gatto Playground. Meet with the design team and city representatives to learn the latest on the St. Anthony Green Streets project.
Please follow all public health guidelines for masks and social distancing, and do not join if you’re experiencing any symptoms of illness. We will have hand sanitizer and extra masks on hand. And if you have any questions or concerns, please email roadwork@nola.gov or call (504) 658-7623. We hope to see you soon!
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The $141 million HUD-funded Gentilly Resilience District (GRD) is a combination of efforts across the Gentilly neighborhood that are designed to reduce flood risk, slow land subsidence, improve energy reliability, and encourage neighborhood revitalization. To learn more, visit: www.nola.gov/resilience.

ST. ANTHONY GREEN STREETS AND PUBLIC ART - Filmore Playground
2021-05-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Filmore Park, 5500 Wildair St., New Orleans, Louisiana, 70122
RESCHEDULED
Originally scheduled for April 17th, postponed due to weather, is now rescheduled for May 15th.
ST. ANTHONY GREEN STREETS AND PUBLIC ART
Saturday, April 17 | 10 a.m. to Noon
@ Filmore Playground, 5500 Wildair St.
We are excited to resume in-person community events for both St. Anthony Green Streets and the Public Art Projects in the Gentilly Resilience District.
On April 17, Artists Langston Allston and Courtney Egan will lead hands-on, creative activities for all ages, focusing on neighborhood history, plants, and water. Photographer Jose Cotto will be taking portraits of neighborhood residents that they can take home with them, and the portraits may also be featured — with permission — as part of a temporary display at Filmore Playground. Meet with the design team and city representatives to learn the latest on the St. Anthony Green Streets project.
From noon to 1, head to New Orleans Mosquito, Rodent, and Termite Control Headquarters (2100 Leon C. Simon) just up the street to help plant a native wildflower meadow with artist Courtney Egan, the Native Plant Initiative, Water Leaders Institute, and Civic Studio.
Please follow all public health guidelines for masks and social distancing, and do not join if you’re experiencing any symptoms of illness. We will have hand sanitizer and extra masks on hand. And if you have any questions or concerns, please email roadwork@nola.gov or call (504) 658-7623. We hope to see you soon!
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The $141 million HUD-funded Gentilly Resilience District (GRD) is a combination of efforts across the Gentilly neighborhood that are designed to reduce flood risk, slow land subsidence, improve energy reliability, and encourage neighborhood revitalization. To learn more, visit: www.nola.gov/resilience.

Art in Bloom 2021- Home Grown
2021-05-05 10:00 - 2021-05-09 17:00 | NOMA, One Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70124, United States
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Garden Study Club of New Orleans invite you to participate in Art in Bloom 2021 | Home Grown presented by IBERIABANK |First Horizon. One of the most anticipated springtime events in New Orleans, for five days at NOMA, from May 5–9, Art in Bloom will showcase spectacular floral designs created by garden clubs, floral designers and creative talents from across New Orleans.
With the current climate in mind, 2021’s theme, Home Grown will bring together exhibitors and speakers primarily from our city and region to celebrate the beauty that you can create at home. This year, Art in Bloom will feature both virtual and in-person experiences for patrons to enjoy while adhering to safety measures that will insure the well-being of visitors, patrons and staff.
NOMA is open Wednesdays – Sundays.
More info

Gentilly Resilience District's Neighborhood Engagement Day
2021-04-17 10:00 - 13:00
This event is open to the public and is intended to purpose to give the community an understanding of the massive water infrastructure project that will soon begin outside their doorsteps. Native plants will play a part in the stormwater management of this area. A bioswale will go in around Filmore Park, and Courtney was awarded a public art project for a footbridge over the bioswale. The footbridge is to be educational as well as artistic and will feature images and information about the native plants that will be in the bioswale and that grow in New Orleans. At this event, NPI will have an Activity and Information table where visitors and neighbors can learn about native plants, make SeedBeads with native seeds provided and/or take native seeds home to plant in their gardens.
This is an opportunity to share your knowledge about native plants and NPI. Courtney is open to any amount of help you can give. You might get a little dirty, so be prepared!
Tabling at Filmore Park, and seed scattering at meadow site.
9:30-11:30 – set up tabling at Filmore Park: We will be introducing native plants to attendees. We’ll have pictures of natives and of the plants that will go in the bioswale, NPI materials, etc., and need your expertise! We will have bowls of native seeds, and will be set up for people to make seed balls, or to pot up seeds on the spot. Any pointers for what works best for tabling are welcome. More info on seed balls.
11:30 to 1:30 – tabling wrap up, reconvene at Native Wildflower Meadow at Leon C. Simon, assist in seed scattering (I have 2 lbs of a native mix) and tamping down seeds, breakdown. This will be the more active shift, scattering or assisting the scattering on site.

Penstemon Party ***Now April 17th***
2021-04-17 09:00 - 11:00 | 620 Heritage Avenue, Terrytown, LA 70056, 620 Heritage Ave, Terrytown, LA, 70056, United States
The date for the Penstemon Party has been changed to Saturday April 17th! See ya’ll there!

Gentilly Resilience District (GRD) Neighborhood Engagement Day
2021-04-16 16:00 - 17:00
Between 4-5pm, community members will be encouraged to meet at 2100 Leon C. Simon Dr., across the street from Ben Franklin High School by the Mosquito Control Board, to plant their seed balls and scatter seeds for the creation of a new Native Wildflower Meadow. Help will be needed there as well, instructing on scattering and pushing the seedballs into the prepared bed.
A community conversation is scheduled for 5 pm that day.
Questions or to volunteer, Email Courtney Egan .

Rosa Keller Library Garden Workday
2021-03-31 09:00 - 12:00 | Rosa Keller Library, 4300 S Broad Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 70125, United States
Join us to plant, weed, and install edging at the Keller Library. Come when you can and stay for as long as you want. Afterwards, lunch at el Pavo Real across the street – and you could join us for that part alone if that works for you!

Big Lake Trail - Matrix Planting
2021-03-20 09:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans City Park Big Lake Native Plant Trail, Friedrichs Avenue, New Orleans, LA, United States
We will be joined again by the New Orleans Town Gardeners for an exciting new planting along the Big Lake Native Plant Trail. This large area was cleared and prepared by volunteers in November with cardboard sheeting and heavy mulch. Now, we are planting over 1000 native plants in a planned matrix where they will intermingle and weave together in a native prairie-inspired design. All plants are in small containers, so planting should not be too strenuous….many hands make light work!

Crazy for Coreopsis - Plant Giveaway
2021-02-27 08:30 - 10:30 | Sankofa Nature Trail & Wetland Park, 6401 Florida Avenue, New Orleans, LA, United States
For info on growing coreopsis see this article written by Tammany Baumgarten, president of NPI-GNO.

Crazy for Coreopsis Giveaway
2021-02-20 08:30 - 10:30 | First Grace United Methodist Church, 3401 Canal St., New Orleans, United States
