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Recent Events
RMA makes new friends at Mitchell Park Fall Fun Day 2025
Over 600 adults and children enjoyed music, food, and festivities on a beautiful October afternoon at the 20th Annual Mitchell Park Fall Fun Day. RMA volunteers Soniya Carvalho, Pierre Wagner, Deborah Shapley, and W.G. (Jerry) Peck connected with city policymakers, neighborhood leaders, embassy personnel, and residents.
At the RMA info table some little people studied the photo of the landscape we’re trying to restore. Other visitors signed up to get info and volunteer. This popular event helped us preserve the historic landscape of Embassy Row and make it more livable.
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RMA Treekeeper Workshop
Our ranks of Treekeepers grew at our August 23 Treekeeper Workshop. New and returning volunteers got their hands-in-the-dirt helping to grow “happy” trees. We met up by the Embassy of Latvia at 2306 Mass. Thank you, Latvia Embassy staff for prewatering these trees! We then excavated compact soil around a fine tulip poplar by the Embassy of Romania. We next went to trees in the 2200 block. Grace Covenant Church Georgetown at 2230 Mass Ave loaned their hose so we could water the newly helped trees. Look for green bows around them.
We show how YOU can grow ‘happy’ city trees in the Treekeeper Workshop slides below.
Photographing the event was Stanley Staniski of staniski.net an internationally renowned photographer and Mass Ave resident. Thank you, Stanley!
The Ambassador of Brazil H.E. Maria Luiza Viotti and her husband Eduardo Baumgartz joined us and pitched in during their Saturday stroll from the Residence. See below “Two new magnolias for the Brazil Embassy” for our planting there last fall.
Spring Tree Walk
Walkers joined RMA’s free public Tree Walk on a sunny Sunday afternoon in April. They saw majestic trees and the historic landscape around some famous mansions. Walkers saw why it is still hard to grow healthy trees. The RMA team and photographer Lennon Maldonado are thanked for the event’s success.
Two new magnolias for the Brazil Embassy
The Embassy of Brazil joined RMA’s program of planting trees at diplomatic sites in partnership with the city Urban Forestry Division and the Arbor Day Foundation. In November 2024 pair of magnolia grandiflora trees requested by Ambassador H.E. Maria Luiza Viotti were planted. A lovely welcome ceremony followed.
RMA makes new friends at Mitchell Park Day 2024
Some 500 adults and children came out for Fall Fun Day at Mitchell Park last October. Restore Mass Ave’s reps made friends with the Chinese Embassy; its popular food table was next to ours. Left to right: Wenxing Qiu, Chinese Minister to Washington, Carole Feld, ANC 2D01 Commissioner; Marie Drissell of the Sheridan Kalorama Neighborhood Council and Deborah Shapley of RMA.
August – First RMA Free Public Tree Walk
Our first free public Tree Walk was held on Sunday August 25 2024. About a dozen people met under the double row ginkgo and tulip poplar trees that line the sidewalks around Sheridan Circle. Walkers were shown how Sheridan Circle’s design and trees embody L’Enfant’s grand design for the capital city. The walk featured otter species: the tall feathery locust by the Chile Ambassador’s residence, the two ‘Valley Forge’ elms we planted by the Cameroon Embassy, and the four ‘Princeton’ elms in front of the Zambia Embassy. At our last stop we measured the huge white oak tree by 2419 Mass planted in 1908. You guessed right. It larger than 100 inches around and a DC-protected Heritage tree.
