🌿 @OpenSpaceSTL is now on @bluesky! 🌿
After much consideration, we are moving from @X to @bluesky to better connect with those who care deeply about conserving our land & water resources
Let’s build something better—together. 💙💚
📍 Follow us: openspacestl.bsky.social
Our partner, River City Outdoors , is opening their Gear Lending Library to St. Louis City residents, starting March 1st!
It’s designed to help people get outside and enjoy nature.
rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com…
Questions?
Email logan@rivercityfdn.org or chris@rivercityfdn.org
We are excited to have Angela Pflueger-Lavin join our Board of Directors this year.
Angela is passionate about our local food systems, the natural environment, and change management within the corporate environment.
#WelcomeToTheTeam#OpenSpaces
Come out this Saturday andjoin the Community Stewardship Alliance to remove invasive honeysuckle and winter creeper from the St. Vincent Park woodlands.
Register to volunteer at:
volunteer.openspacestl.org/n…
Open Space STL has been working closely with the City of Florissant and many of its concerned citizens on this issue.
Come out tonight, at 7 pm at the City Council Meeting
stltoday.com/news/local/gove…
Say hello to Tanner Sutton, one of our new Board Members.
Tanner is a licensed CPA with over seven years of experience in the accounting field. Currently, he serves as a Manager in the Assurance Services Department of @RubinBrown#welcometotheteam
We would like to extend a big welcome to one of our newest Board Members, Nigel Long.
Nigel works for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as an Environmental Specialist of the Stormwater Unit in the Division of Environmental Compliance
#welcome
We are excited to have Nora Stark join our team as an @AmeriCorps member with Stream Teams United serving Open Space STL as a Community Stewardship Coordinator
Nora recently graduated from @SaintLouisU in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
#welcomeaboard
Due to poor conditions at the worksite and the impending weather forecast, we are cancelling this event at Jefferson Barracks tomorrow morning.
linkedin.com/events/honeysuc…
We have partnered Start 2 Finish Events for a new race to celebrate Earth Day and our 60th anniversary.
Please #RSVP to volunteer to help with this effort at:
volunteer.openspacestl.org/e…
Join us at Tower Grove Park on Earth Day for an evening 5K:
raceroster.com/events/2025/1…
Come join us this Saturday for our next event at Jefferson Barracks Park!
Or, check out our rapidly expanding calendar of events......plenty of options available
Join our 60 for 60 Challenge and celebrate our 60th anniversary by volunteering 60 hours in 2025!
#openspaces
It's time to make your voice heard about the sale of invasive species in Missouri
Missouri Senate Bill 105 aims to halt the sale of five invasive plants in Missouri.
Learn more about it at:
moinvasives.org/2025/02/03/s…#HabitatProtection
Pickleball is all the rage. Come out in June and have some fun during our first pickleball tournament to support our programs and services.
To register your team, go to:
openspacestl.org/pickleball/
Thanks to @ChickenNPickle - St. Charles for their great support as tournament host.
Our event calendar is filling up
Plenty of days coming up to take a swing at some #honeysuckle
2025 is our 60th anniversary and we have launched the 60 for 60 campaign. Volunteer 60 hours this year by registering for our events at:
volunteer.openspacestl.org#openspaces
Thanks to everyone who attended last night's annual open house at the Greensfelder Recreation Complex at Queeny Park
Special thanks to Don Gerling and @StlCountyParks for their support of the event.
Check out our event calendar at:
volunteer.openspacestl.org#openspaces
Feeling cooped up by the snow?
Come out next week and help us celebrate what a great year in 2024 we had at @OpenSpaceSTL
Come out to Queeny Park's Greensfelder Recreation Complex from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Please #RSVPNow at:
volunteer.openspacestl.org/e…#openspaces