See our FlourGarden grow!
This will be an exciting summer for Greentopia: construction starts soon on the FlourGarden, the first section of the GardenAerial to become a reality. The $800,000 project, designed by NYC’s Landgarden landscape architecture firm, will be completed in the fall. ...
NEW GardenAerial Promo Film…Teaser
Our new GardenAerial promo film, directed and produced by Don Caspar of Epic10 Films, is in final stages of production and will be premiered very soon. It will be both informative and, we hope, inspirational. And, it will be beautiful! Narrated by Lisa Baron, Founding...
Green Visions has a corner on hope in the JOSANA neighborhood
At the end of a rainy-turned-sunny day, two young women are packing up at the Green Visions gardens on Rochester’s northwest side before planning to walk to their nearby homes. Tiani Jennings, 20, has already won another job with her Green Visions credentials. Tamyha...
GardenAerial 2014 Annual Funding Campaign Underway
It’s that time of the year when we gather with friends and family to celebrate the joys of life – and begin looking forward to the New Year. It is also the season of giving. Now is an important time for the Friends of the GardenAerial to reach out to our donors and...
Bitcoin FAQs
What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new form of currency; the first decentralized, digital currency. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to operate with no central authority, banks, or middlemen managing transactions. Bitcoin is...
Friends of the GardenAerial Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations
As part of our 2015 Annual Fundraising Campaign, Friends of the GardenAerial has become the first not-for-profit organization in the region to accept Bitcoin donations. Working with Coinbase as our preferred Bitcoin payment processor, Friends of the GardenAerial can...
“Aerial” Photo Shoot
Tomorrow, we will have our official photographer, Walter Colley, headed up in helicopter to pass over the gorge at High Falls to snap some fantastic pictures of the entire area. We would like to extend an invitation to any and all people to come take a break and be on...
ROC Transit Day!
ROC Transit Day is Thursday, June 19 If you've ever thought about trying public transportation, ROC Transit Day is for you. Take the leap with thousands of other Rochesterians as we go carfree in support of a greener, healthier community. Organized by Reconnect...
Lisa Roy Baron – Call to Action
As the newly appointed Chair of the Board of the Friends of the GardenAerial, I am looking forward to being part of the transformation of the High Falls District. Early settlers were attracted to High Falls because of its power. The power was harnessed to launch...
Green Visions Update
We have now planted our initial seedling group of over 9,000 plants and they are happily growing away at the Garden Factory, our greenhouse partner for the Green Visions project. We will add several thousand more seeds which will be planted directly in the ground...