Yaupon Place

02/06/2026

your next book is on us 📚

11/17/2025

🌳We speak for the trees! 🌳Join us on Friday, November 21st between 9am-Noon to care for our little trees. Our younger trees at Yaupon Place have outgrown their "tree diapers" -- we will remove these and mulch around as many trees as we can!

If you're interested in participating, we appreciate an RSVP to have enough tools handy.

09/05/2025

Join us for a special time of "work, worship, and welcome" on Wednesday, September 10th at 11:40am. We will integrate our hands and our hearts as we worship and work together. We will adding aromatic, medicinal plants and shrubs around the Labyrinth at Yaupon Place. We'll continue in worship by fellowshipping over a simple meal and sharing in communion together. All are welcome!

If you are interested in joining us, please fill out the volunteer waiver here: https://forms.office.com/r/0BLLpfkTTM

08/27/2025

This morning, we had some wonderful volunteers help lay out a massive field tarp to smother a section of grass at the park. We're so grateful for their help!

This fall or early next spring we will do a planting of native flowers and grasses for a meadow. 🌻🦋 These temporary signs will go up along the tarp soon. Thanks for your patience as we prep for the future.

Thanks to our friends at Shalom Farms for loaning us the tarp and sandbags.

08/26/2025

Join us TOMORROW Wednesday, August 27th at 10am to help prepare the land for a wildflower meadow at Yaupon Place. We would love help laying tarp and moving sandbags to help smother grass this fall. The tarp is heavy and a few willing hands would go a long way!

You can RSVP and sign the volunteer waiver here: https://forms.office.com/r/0BLLpfkTTM

05/19/2025

We're happy to welcome Amber Ellis of Find Your Nature back to Yaupon Place & Shalom Farms this Wednesday as she offers another "Wandering with Trees" experience. Learn more and register below.

Join us on Wednesday evenings to center, create, and connect while we let ourselves wander in nature at Yaupon Place and Shalom Farms in Northside Richmond.

07/18/2024

Who will be there on Sunday? We hope you are ready to learn more about Shalom Farms, what we’ve done, where we are headed, and also a bit about some of our partners in this work! Check out the community organizations that will have tables at the event on Sunday!
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, RVA Community Fridges, Bon Secours Richmond Health System, Blue Sky Fund, Yaupon Place, Union Presbyterian Seminary, UMFS, Better Housing Coalition, UGK Community First, Keep Virginia Beautiful, VCU Health, Children's Museum of Richmond, RVA’s Black Farmers Market

12/09/2023

45 NEW TREES IN THE GROUND!!!!!

And yes, yaupon included 🌱

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Thank you Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Virginia Interfaith Power & Light 💚 And the 50+ volunteers that came out! 💚

12/08/2023

Leadership Transition at Yaupon Place: A Goodbye Letter from Emily Nyce (me), linked below
https://www.yauponplace.org/campaigns/view-campaign/i1caMnVRkXQtpwtwmy53KJ4bGURhrgUWktvN2LAxbUKyxCi_PP-kat6lr690X7AfNOA-I09W12PxCKsgi3OYqhomTupXav72

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Pic: A throwback to the early days when I was your local Leslie Knope chasing you down with a clipboard of questions or sitting with my sign welcoming conversation. I always asked: "How has this land been healing for you?" And I've heard a hundred stories how. Thank you for sharing your stories with me throughout all of these years. You've changed my own story completely for the better. And while I grieve leaving Yaupon Place, I know the story there continues 🙏 Read my letter to learn more.

11/29/2023

Put on your reading glasses or zoom in here! There's been a change in plans SO NOW SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9TH IS AN ALL DAY EXTRAVAGANZA!!! Please come to any or (preferably) all of it 🙂🙃

11/16/2023

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11/14/2023

Two Actors. Ten Puppets. 30 Minutes. 🎭

Let’s gather at the park and share in some neighborly holiday cheer! Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and a plate of cookies to exchange. 🍪 🎄 ⭐️We’ll provide hot apple cider (gf) to keep us all warm during this wonderful show performed by Virginia Theatre Machine.

This event is free, but all donations will be used to improve the labyrinth landscaping! TIA!! Can't wait to see you.

(And don't forget about planting trees one week before this!)