Games, grass and trees on PARK(ing) Day 2010

By Andy Meeks

Last Friday, Friends of Trees helped celebrate Portland’s PARK(ing) Day by creating a small urban park and game center in front of Stumptown Coffee on SW 3rd Avenue. Complete with a homemade game of bags, a temporary lawn, walls of straw bales, our famous Plant It Portland yard signs, and, of course, trees—scarlet oaks, white alder, and a bald cypress—it was a fun and interactive way to highlight the need to create and protect green spaces in our region.

The day was sponsored by The Intertwine Alliance, a broad coalition of public, private and nonprofit organizations whose goal is to promote, protect and document The Intertwine, “our connected network of parks, trails and natural areas in the Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington region.”

You can help create green spaces in our urban areas by purchasing discounted street and yard trees through our Neighborhood Trees program or by volunteering with our Green Space Initiative program from October through April this planting season.

Watch the Portland Tribune video above and check out our slideshow below to see how much fun Friends of Trees had at PARK(ing) Day last Friday.

–Meeks is Volunteer & Outreach Manager for Friends of Trees