Current Projects
Columbus ArborFest
The first ever Columbus ArborFest was held at Whetstone Park in August 2024! It was a huge success with over 2,000 attendees. ArborFest 2025 was even bigger with about 3,000 attendees, 80 booths, dozens of activities, and over 50 volunteers. Planning is well underway for 2026!
Volunteer, donate, and mark your calendars (festival date to be announced shortly) to enjoy this exciting new event in Clintonville! A family-friendly festival celebrating trees and nature.
The festival features food trucks, music, tree giveaways, guided nature walks, art installations and performances, a popup market, non-profit organizations from all over the city, a children’s area, and much more!
We can always use more volunteers to help plan and run Columbus ArborFest.
Fire Station 19 Landscaping
Since 2021, the Clintonville Green Team has worked to improve the landscaping at Clintonville’s historic Fire Station 19 along High Street.
Work continued in 2024 with some lessons learned. Volunteers potted and lovingly gave away 300+ large pots full of high quality native perennials throughout the spring. Thanks to natural proliferation, we were able to give away 3-4x the number of plants that were originally planted along the station’s entrance. The area along the path to the front door has been tamed, opening up the front walkway with a low-height, set back, low-maintenance design.
Work continued in 2025, as two new Clintonville Green Team members took on leadership of the project! All beds were revamped and another large bed of euonymus was removed by the station entrance. The Fire Station crew was more involved than ever – we’d like to thank Captain Paxton for that! Once again, the Team was ready for the annual Open House event in the Fall. 2025 was probably the best year ever for the garden.
The site is registered on the Pollinator Pathway here.
Brevoort Park Pollinator Garden
The new pollinator garden at Brevoort Park is thriving! Over 200 natives were planted at this city park on Indianola Avenue in May 2024 by a dedicated and energized team of 5 volunteers. The kindness of an across-the-street neighbor gave us access to water, to make sure the seedlings were well hydrated. Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW) provided us with great support, as well as plants and compost. Generous grants from Wild Ones Columbus and Columbus Audubon made the garden a reality.
Now the garden is growing and, literally, putting down roots. It’s already providing so many resources in our community: beautiful colors & textures to delight the human senses and an abundance of pollen & nectar for pollinators and other fauna. This native garden will help provide another link in the pollinator pathway that is steadily being created in Clintonville. More and more community members are planting natives in their yards and hellstrips (tree lawns), and more native plants are appearing in public spaces.
So when you’re out for a neighborhood drive, pushing a stroller, walking a dog, biking, walking or jogging, swing by the Brevoort Park Pollinator Garden (on the Torrence Road side) and check out this new gem in our neighborhood!
Beechwold Hardware Pollinator Garden
(text coming soon)
Litter Cleanups
As long as there is trash on the ground, we’ll come around! We do litter cleanups year-round to keep our neighborhood beautiful and clean. Has litter bugged you and you want to do something about it? We can help!
In particular, we clean the ravines and Highway 71 exit ramps periodically, and we coordinate with other groups that also clean up Clintonville.
FYI Keep Columbus Beautiful provides everything that you need to organize your own clean up event!