Posts Categorized: News

September: The Blooming is Easy

Capital Trees completed the planting of the Low Line Garden this spring to glorious effect!  The CSX viaduct is the backdrop and shrubs complementing the pattern of the raised trestle provide structure for sweeps of perennials.

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Q & A with Capital Trees featured on The Community Foundation Blog

So far this year, The Community Foundation has awarded over $6 million in competitive grant funding to local nonprofit organizations that are working to address needs within our community. In our most recent funding cycle, Capital Trees, a first-time TCF competitive grantee, received a $25,000 grant to provide programming and operational support for projects to restore and enhance Richmond’s urban green spaces. We did a quick Q&A with the board chair of Capital Trees,

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Keep Virginia Beautiful

At first blush it might seem odd that an editorial series on making Virginia a more dynamic place to live would direct attention toward the issue of beauty. On second blush, it might not. The natural beauty that people are most drawn to usually exhibits either abundant vitality itself, or an abundance of natural resources — fresh air, mountain streams, loamy earth — most conducive to it. The arid landscape of Mars may look impressive,

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Major landscaping effort planned for Dock Street

A stretch of the Virginia Capital Trail near Richmond’s Tobacco Row is about to get a whole lot greener.

The Richmond Planning Commission signed off Monday on an extensive landscaping project between Dock Street and the James River and Kanawha Canal. The effort is intended to help “activate the canal by drawing people to the water’s edge,” according to a staff report.

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Beautiful RVA Partnership Seeks to Expand Urban Greening

Cities across the country are realizing the social, environmental and economic benefits of increasing green space. Cost and bureaucracy can hinder these projects, but a new initiative in Richmond seeks to bring together existing resources and empower residents to improve their own neighborhoods. For Virginia Currents, Catherine Komp has more.

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