Meet at 9AM. The day’s work plan will include removing invasive plants, deadheading native plants and collecting seeds to sow on the trail next year. Wear closed toe shoes. Bring work gloves and pruners if you have them. We will not cancel for sprinkles but will do so for heavy rain or other weather conditions. […]
Final Seed Cleaning Day - Shake Rattle and Roll with the FriendsSaturday, November 19, 9AM - Noon Join the Friends as they sort, clean, and separate seeds gathered from the trail. Cleaned seeds will be dispersed on the trail after the first snowfall. RSVP to tell us you are coming, and we will send the […]
Decorate yourself, family, dogs, strollers or wagons with lights and things that glow. No candles or open flames, please! Meet at Glencoe’s Shelton Park playground for a festive presentation. Stroll the Green Bay trail to sing songs and celebrate the arrival of longer days. Festivities will end at the Shelton Park fire pit to enjoy […]
In honor of Martin Luther King Day School District #35 invites families and the community to learn more about local service organizations and opportunities to volunteer or contribute. The event will take place in the South School Cafeteria. Each organization will showcase their organization’s mission, services, and volunteer opportunities. The Friends of the Green Bay […]
Reliable supplies of water are threatened by scarcity, excess, wild fluctuations between these extremes, and pollution. In the Great Lakes region, some communities enjoy ample supplies and others do not, but they all face the "threat multiplier" of a rapidly changing climate. Kimberly Gray, chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at Northwestern University, […]
It's been said that the two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Come see the Green Bay Trail in a new light as GYS proudly presents winning photographs of the 2022 Friends of the Green Bay Trail Photo Contest. Join us for the opening reception as the photographers discuss […]
Landscape designer Deborah Chud returns to take the audience on a photo tour of her highly unusual New Perennialist-inspired garden and describes the design principles underlying it. Many of the plants are unfamiliar—even to experienced and knowledgeable gardeners. These “new perennials” were all taken from a distinctive canon of plants, and they exhibit the naturalistic […]
Celebrate Earth Day. Join us to clean up Glencoe parks and lakefront. We will meet at various locations. This is a rain or shine event, please dress for the weather. Bring your own boots, gloves and buckets to collect debris in. Refuse and recycling cans will be placed at each cleanup location to empty […]
RESCHEDULED due to weather New date is 8:30 - 10AM, Thursday, May 11 Join area expert birder, Tim Joyce, of Wild Birds Unlimited, for a bird walk along the Glencoe Golf Club’s forested borders adjacent to the Chicago Botanic Garden. Dress for the weather and ground conditions. Bring binoculars and a small note pad. Tim […]
Meet Trail Day stewards at the Mary St, entrance to the Green Bay Trail, south of Glencoe’s Harbor Ave. The day’s agenda will be discussed at that time. Work will vary by season and may include installing fencing around new shrubs, planting native plants, removing invasive plants, collecting native plant seeds and seasonal trail maintenance. […]
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We restore nature’s beauty to The Green Bay Trail.