Welcome to Santa Fe’s newest park! We are the Railyard Stewards, a new grassroots organization working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe, The Trust for Public Land and the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation to provide community stewardship and advocacy for the care and programming of the Railyard Park + Plaza. Our unique care, conservation and education effort saw great success in 2009 with community events, educational programs, and the blooming and growing of our City’s newest and largest park and community plaza. Some highlights of our work include:
Park Volunteer Programs: In 2009 the Stewards coordinated over 1300 hours of hands-on care of the Railyard Park + Plaza, with over 150 people participating. The Railyard established many local and low-water plants in the Park in 2009.
Community Food Gardens were established in the Railyard Park, with food from the communal “waffle garden” donated to the Food Depot. Thanks to Santa Fe Community Gardens and the Santa Fe Master Gardeners Association for their hard work on this project!
Outdoor Classroom Programs: The Stewards provided educational programming for local schools and youth groups for service learning and educational programs. YouthWorks River Crew worked to keep the “Acequia Madre” irrigation ditch clean and healthy, and Alvord Elementary participated hands-on science education.
A Community-based, Diverse Board of Directors was formed this year to raise funds and provide direction for our programs, with professionals from design, legal, writing and horticultural professions.
This is just the beginning – we hope you’ll be involved in the Railyard this year!
