Accepting Obstacles and Rising to the Challenge With Green Visions
Green Visions Social Distance Graduation at our Smith Street Gardens Green Visions successfully completed its 8th year of delivering quality job training and hand-on, work experience to at risk-youth in our city. A late start, drought-like conditions, and a health...
Our HydroStation and ROC the Riverway Initiative
Donate With funding and guidance from the City of Rochester and ROC the Riverway, Hunt Engineering is close to completing the study of the Hydro Station’s structural integrity. Drones were used to glimpse inside. Repellers jumped off the edge to look at the...
A Visit From Joe Morelle
On September 4th Congressman Joe Morelle came to visit our High Falls viewing dock and take a tour of Hydro Station 4, the first hydroelectric station in Rochester now owned by Greentopia! Congressman Morrell received the full tour of our facilities from Greentopia's...
Lucas Green House Cocktail Party!
This past week Greentopia hosted a cocktail party to thank our Green Visions program partner Lucas Green House. The event took place on our viewing platform with a beautiful view of the high falls gorge. In attendance was the Lucas Green House staff and recently...
Sprouts Spotted!
Sunflower sprouts have started to peak through at our Smith Street location! We are so excited to see the start of some new flower growth! Follow @green.visions on Instagram or like the Facebook page for more Green Visions updates!
THANK YOU! Dinner Off the Bridge
Thanks to you all our Dinner Off the Bridge event was a HUGE success! 146 delicious dinners prepared by The Cub Room's amazing staff were sold. A huge thank you to everyone who came out to support our event! All of the proceeds were given to the Green Visions program,...
Green Visions Program 2020 Updates!
Our Green Visions program is adapting, like us all, to the COVID-19 pandemic. Planting has begun at both our Joseph Ave. and Smith St. gardens! A late but great start! A special thank you to the Nature Conservancy for their continued support of our Joeseph Ave....
#bethegoodroc COVID-19 – Meals for Health Workers
BetheGoodRoc envisions a future where frontline and healthcare workers at any time of a crisis are provided with simple comforts to help make the situation more bearable and maintain a level of normalcy for workers and their families. We do this through the community....
Green Visions Shipping Container Floral Workshop!
Now in its sixth year, the Green Visions program has installed an 800 square foot shipping container at the Green Visions Campus at 174 Whitney Street in the JOSANA neighborhood. The container has been completely retrofitted by Ikoniq, a Canandaigua-based company that...
Come to the EcoFair! We’re launching Greentopia’s EcoDistrict.
It’s time to launch the High Falls Eco-District! So no, that’s nothing like sailing a Frisbee over the edge of the Genesee River ravine in Greentopia’s backyard. It’s the formal process required to begin certification of the EcoDistrict north of downtown. The planning...