Executive Director Lisa Grubba was interviewed on River City Live last week to talk about Greenscape’s roots in the Jacksonville community and its upcoming gala, the Root Ball. The show was filmed in Kooker Park, the site of a recent community tree planting.
Greenscape and TD Bank planted trees at the historic Jacksonville park to grow the canopy and provide a noise and air pollution buffer from a busy highway. Kooker is a well-loved park in the historic Eastside neighborhood, or “Out East” as locals call it. It’s the largest historically black neighborhood in Jacksonville and was home to many civil rights icons, including A.P. Randolph, R.L Brown, and James Weldon Johnson. In addition to green space, the park has sports fields where many of today’s black professionals played sports as children.
LiftJax, the nonprofit working to eradicate generational poverty in Jacksonville, helped sponsor the event by connecting Greenscape to leaders in the Eastside neighborhood and by providing some funds for watering the trees. Fifth graders from nearby R.L. Brown Gifted and Talented Academy attended and planted trees alongside TD Bank team members.
Click below to see the interview:
https://www.news4jax.com/video/river-city-live/2024/04/24/greenscape-planting-seeds-with-root-ball-2024/