First Green Team meeting in 2023

The Green Team meetings the second Wednesday of every month at the Delran Municipal Building. Stop by and see what we’re working on. Here’s what we’ll be discussing this month.

  • First Day Hike 
  • Wildflower garden – controlled burn and spring planting
  • Sustainable Jersey Grant – finalize plan to apply for Lake Lonnie project by Feb 10
  • Annual Report to Mayor and Council –  any final comments
  • Forestry Accomplishment Report and Tree City Reports – Due February 15, 2023
  • Updating our Forestry Plan
  • Advertising for tree planters 
  • Community Solar – Thoughts?   
  • Outreach – beyond social media and multi languages 
  • Adopt a Tree impact – Emily
  • Google Drive – Karen
  • STEM Fair 
  • New actions for 2023? Ideas?   
  • Recycling audit at Karen’s
  • Volunteer hours – https://forms.gle/HNGnrvrPuKswD5si8
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February Green Team meeting

We will be holding our February meeting online via Zoom on February 9 @7:30pm. The public is welcome to join us. If you are interested, send an email to Delran.Green@gmail.com and we will provide the link.

  • Update from the Council meeting 
  • Update from TriCounty Sustainability Alliance
  • Community Solar
  • Ordinances – Sustainable Land Use pledge, Solar Friendly and EV Friendly
  • Other Sustainable Jersey Actions
  • Community Garden 
  • Seedling Giveaway
  • Arbor Day

November Green Team Meeting

Our next meeting is November 10 @7:30pm in the Delran Municipal Building. We will be discussing the Tree Ordinance, Winterfest, Chickens, Community Garden, Community Solar, Holiday Light collection and Sustainable Jersey Actions. The public is alway welcome to join the meeting and to get involved.

October Green Team meeting

We will be meeting on October 13 at the Delran Municipal Building at 7:30pm. All are invited to see what we’re up to and to get involved. On our agenda is:

  1. Halloween Freecycle Pop-up shop – evaluation 
  2. Green Team T-shirts 
  3. CORE Training 
  4. School collaboration 
  5. Geocache 
  6. Tree Ordinance 
  7. Tree Memorial program
  8. Tree Inventories- still need Faunce, Brown, Notre Dame, Ohio
  9. Community Garden – next steps

September Green Team Meeting

Our September meeting will be held on Wednesday September 8 at 7:30pm in the Delran Municipal Building. The public is alway welcome. We will be discussing the tree ordinance, tree memorials, open space plan, project halloween, GeoCache, Community Garden, Sustainable Jersey Actions and certification, and completing our tree inventories. Delran High School students can earn community service hours assisting with Tree Inventories. If you are interested, stop by our meeting.

July Green Team meeting

We are meeting on July 14 at 7:30pm at the Delran Municipal Building. We’ll be talking trees and could definitely use a few interested volunteers to help us inventory the trees in our parks and wrap seedlings to protect them from “weed whackers”. In addition to trees, we will be discussing:

  • Sustainable Jersey Actions
  • Compost Clinic
  • Community Garden
  • GeoCache
  • Project Halloween

June Green Team Meeting

We will be meeting on June 9 at 7pm at the Delran Municipal Building. We are hoping the weather cooperates so we can sit outside. Bring a chair and a beverage with you. Here’s what we will be discussing this month.

  • Tree ordinance update
  • Tree Inventories
  • Sustainable Jersey Actions
  • Community Garden
  • Community Yard Sale – June 19
  • Event planning 
  • Social media campaign with the Lorax and Kermit

April 14 – Green Team Meeting

Our April Meeting will be via Zoom at 7:30 on Wednesday April 14. Click here for the link. We’ve got a lot to cover as this is the busy time of year. Our agenda is listed below.

Plastic Toy Recycling

CD Recycling

Tree Protection Ordinance

Tree Inventory Project

Community Garden

Email update to mailing list

Tree Seedling Giveaway

Arbor Day

GeoCache/Kiddie Safari

Day of Service

Movies in the Park

Wildflower Garden

School Collaboration.