PURPOSE:

Be part of community action for our City Parks. Your efforts do make a difference! They inform, educate and inspire others as well as help to beautify, appreciate and protect our Parks' valuable resources!

METHODS:


VOLUNTEER. Many groups have offered their services to enhance the beauty of our Parks. Coordinating with the City Administrator (314-432-6606), Conservation and Parks & Trails Commissions is required:
  • Town & Country Symphony's Brass Choir playing at the Dedications of Preservation Park, Longview Farm Park and Drace Park;

  • Mason Ridge Cub Scouts from Pack 496, Leaders and families raking and filling voluminous bags of sweet gum balls, leaves and twigs from Longview Farm Park grounds;

    Patty O. Wiggins

  • Principia and Delmar-Harvard first graders, parents and teachers planting flowers at Longview Farm Park;

  • Principia Upper School students helping with refreshments for Parks' Dedications and fundraising activities;

  • Eagle Scout candidates (fellow Scouts and friends) at Longview Farm Park seating tree labels in the ground, clearing poison ivy, clearing tree seedlings along the pond dam, preserving Black Oak and White Oak historical stumps, adding historical dates to the White Oak stump, establishing a new mulched trail;



  • Eagle Scout candidates for Preservation Park building wooden benches, laying mulch on forest trails;

  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members and children clearing stream beds of timber, laying new mulch along trails, and wrapping tree trunks at Longview Farm Park; removing honeysuckle, planting bushes, pruning and wrapping tree trunks at Preservation;

  • Webster Groves Nature Study Society (WGNSS) identifying trees in Longview Farm Park forest along main trail and aging historical White Oak stump;

  • Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), Urban Forestry Rep identifying trees, aging Black and White Oak historical stumps; ecological welfare of Longview Farm Park;

  • Mason Ridge Garden Club providing and maintaining magnificent flower gardens around the Longview Farm Park Estate and its web site; sponsoring May Plant Sales and all park clean up event to honor 9-11 victims;

  • Town & Country Garden Club providing an historical native flower garden by the Kropp log cabin in Drace Park; designed, planted and maintaining the Memorial Garden, on the south lawn of the Municipal Center, which is dedicated to the City of Town & Country, its Officials and the Founder of the T&C Garden Club in 1956.



  • Individual Contribution offering 27 homemade birdhouse/feeders to be placed throughout Longview Farm Park;

  • Aldermen Chairing Tree Board and PHASE yearly planting Arbor Day tree seedlings at Longview Farm Park as well as assisting with identification of trees for labelling Missouri Native trees along trails;

    Alison Tatlow


  • Conservation Commissioners providing Interpretive Activities in Longview Farm Park such as labeled Missouri Native tree species along the main trail, mulching them; providing and identifying pre-historic boulders with story boards to illustrate the rock formations under the park; mulching the boulder areas;



  • Parks & Trails Commission supervising and planting native flowers, wrapping young tree trunks and assisting with mulched trail project in Longview Farm Park; assisting other volunteers in Preservation;

  • Equine-Assisted Therapy volunteers to assist with care of horses and classes. (See Horse Gallery at Longview Farm Park home page)


    AS VISITORS.
  • Dog walkers picking up after their dogs with plastic mutt mitts that are provided and disposing of them properly in trash receptacles;

  • Park users putting trash in receptacles, recycling when possible and being respectful of Park Rules.


    RESULTS:


  • Tree City USA Certification from planting all the tree seedlings at Longview Farm Park during Town & Country Arbor Day tree seedling give-away every year;



  • Community Wildlife Habitat Certification for providing shelter, food and water for birds, pollinators and wildlife;



  • An Historic Garden is dedicated by the Town & Country Garden Club.

    Patty O. Wiggins


  • Recycled plastic park benches through a Grant from St. Louis County from all the plastic milk containers turned into recycling!

  • Parks & Trails Foundation contributions providing partner funding with City for Interpretive Activities;



  • Beautiful parks to enjoy by everyone! Thank you for your part in making this possible for present and future generations.





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Photographer: Bruce Schwartz

Photographer: Patty O. Wiggins,Alison Tatlow (where noted by in thumbnail flag )

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