Keep Gastonia Beautiful, Inc.

There's still time to register your youth to celebrate Juneteenth with Keep Gastonia Beautiful at a special youth event in our community garden. Tuesday, June 16th 10:30-12:00 noon

Participants will:
Learn about Aunt Charlotte McClee and community growth
Create an Underground Railroad-inspired craft
Take a short walk to the Highland Community Art Park and
Discover the stories of Gastonia’s three Black mayors and their impact on our city

All registered youth are welcome as we learn about local history, leadership, and the power of community together.
Registration link in the first comment.

Is your teen looking to have a positive impact while racking up community service hours? Come join us tomorrow at our very first Teen Volunteer Club interest meeting! We’ll brainstorm and kick off a summer service project together! Use the link in the comments to RSVP.

Keep Gastonia Beautiful recently teamed up with our incredible NC Extension Master Gardener Volunteers to give monarch butterflies a helping hand by planting milkweed plants!

🌱 83 milkweed plants at Martha Rivers Park
🌱 103 milkweed plants at the Gastonia Farmers Market
🌱 10 milkweed plants at the Aunt Charlotte Community Garden

Milkweed is the only plant where monarch butterflies lay their eggs, making it an essential part of their life cycle. These new pollinator-friendly plantings will provide important habitat and food sources for monarchs, bees, and other beneficial pollinators.

And the work isn’t stopping there! Our dedicated volunteers are already planning additional plantings throughout the city and are on a mission to create even more pollinator-friendly spaces for our community to enjoy!

💚 Thank you to our Master Gardener Volunteers for helping Gastonia grow a little greener, a little brighter, and a lot more butterfly-friendly!

CommunityInBloom PollinatorFriendly MasterGardeners 🦋🌼🌿

Our garden is growing beautifully this season! 🌱🌼 From vegetables and herbs to flowers that support our pollinator friends, the Aunt Charlotte McClee Community Garden is full of life and community spirit.

We currently have just ONE garden bed remaining for anyone interested in growing their own plants, veggies, or flowers this year! Come grow with us in the Highland neighborhood! 💚

For information on reserving the last bed or volunteering in the garden, send us a message [email protected]

So much positivity happening in downtown. Do you want to join any of these cleanups? Reach out and we can connect you with the litter leaders!

COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY

Join 704 Run Club on June 4 as we help keep Downtown Gastonia clean! 🧹🌿

Need volunteer hours? Want to give back to the community? Come out and serve with us!

📍 Downtown Gastonia
🗓 June 4

Let’s keep Gastonia beautiful together ✨

The Greatest American Cleanup runs until June 20, we’re working together to prepare Gastonia for America’s 250th celebration.

Every bag of litter collected.
Every street cleaned.
Every volunteer hour logged.
It all adds up.

To get your organization involved, use the link in the first comment.

Celebrate Juneteenth with Keep Gastonia Beautiful at a special youth event in our community garden. Tuesday, June 16th 10:30-12:00 noon

Participants will:
Learn about Aunt Charlotte McClee and community growth
Create an Underground Railroad-inspired craft
Take a short walk to the Highland Community Art Park and
Discover the stories of Gastonia’s three Black mayors and their impact on our city

All registered youth are welcome as we learn about local history, leadership, and the power of community together.
Registration link in the first comment.

UPDATE: ALL TREES HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR! We truly appreciate how many people wanted trees!

Get ready to put down roots….
Thanks to the Arbor Day Foundation, in partnership with Truist, we received 50 trees to giveaway. This initiative was designed to help communities restore what was lost during storms while building resilience for the future.
Each household is allowed 1 tree. Trees are currently bareroot and must be picked up within the next few days. They should be planted in a pot or in the ground as soon as possible.

Reserve your tree using the link in the first comment...We will confirm your request based on our inventory then send you pick up instructions via email.