Nominate someone for a Community Greening Award.

Nomination Categories Include:

1. Best Sustainable Public Green space: pocket parks, strategic tree plantings, pollinator gardens, raingardens and bioswales. Any green space with a specific purpose.
2. Best Store Front or Commercial Area: planters, window boxes, parklets. Any green projects in front of a business or commercial area that make it beautiful and create a positive impact for the neighborhood.
3. Best Innovative Use of Plants: dynamic color or texture combinations, vertical gardens, and invites people to interact with plants.
4. Best Food Security Project: school gardens, community gardens, and non-profit green spaces
5. Best Municipality-Sponsored Project: projects that improve public byways, establish new or improve established green spaces, or new sustainable stormwater management projects.

Project Criteria:
Projects will be evaluated on how well they meet these standards. Projects do not need to fulfill all these criteria to be considered, but need to be located in Worcester County.

• gardens that exhibit plant diversity
• positive use of native plants
• promotes food security
• supports pollinators
• improves stormwater management
• innovative design
• uses sustainable and resilient principles – reduces water use, reduces or eliminates herbicide and pesticide use, reduces carbon emissions, heat island reduction, keeps materials onsite, uses natural, reused, and upcycled materials, no potentially nuisance plants.

All public green space should be planted and maintained in accordance with the city or town’s guidelines where the project is located.