Our Flowerscape Director, Leah Heiser, helps to coordinate over 63 Adopt-A-Sites in all ten wards of the city. This gardening program oversees and guides the volunteers who beautify neighborhood sites on public land. Neighborhood sites must meet and follow basic criteria before becoming Adopt-A-Sites, such as water accessibility. Each year in April, the agency hosts a training workshop clinic so the Flowerscape Director can show new community volunteers how to maintain their annual beds for 5 months via a PowerPoint show. All volunteers are welcome to attend annually.
If you are interested in starting an Adopt-A-Site in your neighborhood, call KAB Flowerscape Director, Leah Heiser at 330.375.2116 ext 7 or contact Leah by email. We start new volunteer groups for Adopt-A-Sites from January-March only, which means a public area should be brought to the attention of Leah preferably by fall of the previous year so she can approve the topography, but if you are thinking about adopting a site at any other time, we would be happy to put your group on the “interested” list. We are looking forward to welcoming your volunteer group into the program!