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Volunteers Help Cleanup Former New Rochelle Greenhouses
The greenhouses were closed in 2009, but had provided the parks department with plants prior to that.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY - Volunteers recently did a cleanup effort to help restore century-old greenhouses and beautify Hudson Park in New Rochelle.
Monroe College students, employees of LAZ Parking and Hudson Park Children Greenhouse Committee members raked leaves, picked up broken glass, trimmed bushes, cleaned out a fish pond and pulled down vines shrouding the former municipal greenhouses at Hudson Park, according to information from organizers.
The three groups were assisting Hudson Park Children’s Greenhouse Inc., a new nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the greenhouses.
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HPCG hopes to use the restored facility to provide age-appropriate, hands-on educational gardening experience, organizers said.
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The greenhouses were operated by the City of New Rochelle, Wildcliff Nature Center and Friends of Wildcliff Greenhouse.
The greenhouses, which were used by the city’s Parks Department to provide plantings, closed in 2009 due to budgetary issues and needed maintenance and repairs.
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