Yale Westchester Day of Service, 2024

The Jay Heritage Center in Rye, NY will host "I Love My Park Day" on Saturday, May 4, 2024, from 9AM to Noon. This is an exciting statewide event to improve and enhance New York's parks and historic sites. 

The Jay Heritage Center is the proud steward of the Jay Estate, a 23-acre educational center with indoor and outdoor classrooms including award-winning gardens.  The Center is located at 210 Boston Post Road in Rye. 

The Center and YWAA are looking for volunteers of all ages to help make this local park even more beautiful and accessible. Clean trails, remove invasive species like multiflora rose vines, Oriental bittersweet, garlic mustard, Japanese Stiltgrass and more. Help plant annuals and build veggie bed trellises. Community service letters will be provided at the conclusion of your service, if needed.

• Please bring gardening gloves if possible.
• Water and snacks will be provided.
• Long pants, long-sleeved shirts, socks, and closed-toe shoes are strongly recommended.

There will be an ice cream truck on hand for all volunteers. A special program and book signing with forager Tama Matsuoka Wong, author of Into the Weeds will follow from 12-2PM for all who are interested.

Suzanne Clary '83 is a long-time president of the Center. Yale history professor Joanne Freeman presented a lecture at the Center to Yale Westchester alumni in 2016 as part of YWAA's speaker series.

To register for the event, click Day-of-Service-Westchester. 

To learn more about the tradition of Yale Day of Service in Westchester, click Day-of-Service-2013-2024 Westchester.