Meeting – Friends of Live Oaks

December 13, 2025 Tim Calendar, Local live oaks, Meeting, Public Engagement

FOLO meeting December 15th ‘25 415pm at ESP on PHP. Join us!

If you receive this email and haven’t yet been to one of our meetings, we welcome you to join us “regular attenders” as we pursue our mission to promote, protect, preserve and plant live oaks in our area. We really need your ideas, energy and help!

Attached is the draft agenda for our next meeting on December 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM (PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME AS WE HAVE BEEN REQUESTED TO COME A LITTLE LATER SO THAT STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM CAN COMPLETE THEIR WORK DAY). Also attached to the agenda is a calendar of coming events. Please email any suggested additions or changes for the agenda or calendar to me.

FOLO-MEETING-AGENDA-DEC-15-25.pdf Download

At this month’s meeting we will be discussing how the events since our last meeting have been going, upcoming January events, reviewing our adopted goals for 2026 and making plans on how to start accomplishing them, and how we can step up our efforts to increase public awareness of FOLO and our mission. Come join us and get involved with us on these and other efforts! We welcome your ideas and input and hope you will join us in person or virtually.

If you haven’t done so already, please join us as a new member or renew your membership for 2026! Remember dues and donations are tax deductible – a receipt will be provided. Details on how to make payment are at our website: https://friendsofliveoaks.org/join-us/

This month we are meeting in person at our regular location – the Environmental Studies Program Classroom (the far east stairs at the Brock Environmental Center, 3663 Marlin Bay Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23455).

*Quercus virginiana* changes on First Landing Stare Park on Live Oak Trail.

November 12, 2025 Tim Calendar, Local live oaks, Meeting, Public Engagement

FOLO meeting November 17th ‘25 4pm at ESP on PHP. Join us!

Attached is the draft agenda for our next meeting on November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM – and attached calendar of coming events. Please email any suggested additions or changes for the agenda or calendar to me.

At this month’s meeting we will be discussing how the events since our last meeting have been going, upcoming fall events, finalizing our goals for 2026, and how we can step up our efforts to increase public awareness of FOLO and our mission. Come join us and get involved with us on these and other efforts! We welcome your ideas and input and hope you will join us in person or virtually.

If you haven’t done so already, please join us as a new member or renew your membership for 2026! Remember dues and donations are tax deductible – a receipt will be provided. Details on how to make payment are at our website: https://friendsofliveoaks.org/join-us/

PLEASE NOTE

FOLO-Meeting-Agenda-Nov-17-25.pdf Download

Saplings being planted at Pleasure House Point in Wetlands Mitigation Bank area. Hope every sapling planted is successful!

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025 Tim Calendar, Local live oaks, Meeting

FOLO meeting October 20th ‘25 4pm at ESP on PHP. Join us!

Attached is the draft agenda for our next meeting on October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM – and calendar of coming events. Please email any suggested additions or changes for the agenda or calendar to me.

At this month’s meeting we will be discussing how the events since our last meeting have been going, upcoming fall events, how to accomplish our remaining goals for 2025, and how we can step up our efforts to increase public awareness of FOLO and our mission. We will also be having a walk around the Ocean Park neighborhood near Brock Center to observe the live oaks (postponed from September meeting due to poor weather). Come join us and get involved with us on these and other efforts! We welcome your ideas and input and hope you will join us in person or virtually.

If you haven’t done so already, please join us as a new member or renew your membership for 2025! Remember dues and donations are tax deductible – a receipt will be provided. Details on how to make payment are at our website: https://friendsofliveoaks.org/join-us/

ESP = Environmental Studies Program on PHP (Pleasure House Point) map located here. Enter door at ESP school.

September 8, 2025 Tim Calendar, Local live oaks, Meeting

FOLO meeting September 15 ‘25 4pm at ESP on PHP. Join us!

At this month’s meeting we will be discussing details on our upcoming events in October, ongoing work on achieving our major goals for 2025, and how we can help increase public awareness of FOLO and our mission.

We will also be having a walk around the Ocean Park neighborhood near Brock Center to observe the live oaks (weather permitting). Come join us and get involved with us on these and other efforts! We welcome your ideas and input and hope you will join us in person or virtually.

ESP = Environmental Studies Program on PHP (Pleasure House Point) map located here. Enter door at ESP school.

FOLO-Meeting Agenda September 15, 2025,.pdf Download

A spectacular live oak next to recently cleared construction site in Ocean Park.

May 20, 2025 Tim Calendar, Local live oaks, Meeting, Preservation, Public Engagement

Friends of Live Oaks (FOLO) News Update May 19, 2025 – No regular May MTG – SAVE THE DATES – 5/28/25 Norfolk Field Trip and June 16th Regular MTG

There will not be a regular meeting for Friends of Live Oaks for May. Instead, our next meeting will be on Wednesday, May 28 beginning at 3 PM and consists of a field trip to visit several iconic live oak locations in Norfolk – Bay Oaks Park in East Beach and the Monkey Bottom Area in Ocean View. We will end the meeting by driving by the Norfolk Naval Base to catch a view of the Willoughby Oak – an iconic landmark.

We will begin our field trip by assembling at Bay Oaks Park located at 2413 East Ocean View Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23518. This City Park has preserved a unique area of live oak trees that was threatened with development until a dedicated group of residents worked to have the area protected as a public park.

After we finish our visit there we will travel on to the Monkey Bottom Area in Ocean View. Parking is available at the adjoining Ocean View Elementary School located at 350 West Government Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23503.

Recommended attire for the field trip: a hat, sunglasses, water bottle, insect repellent, and long pants and closed toed walking shoes and socks.

Since our last meeting Friends of Live Oaks has hosted a successful tree adoption event, and has received a donation of over 100 live oak saplings from FOLO member Mark Warren. Mark hand grows these saplings after perfecting a method of growing seedlings from acorns at his beautiful property located on Kings Creek, a tributary to the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River. A special shout out to both Mark and to Drew Austin, also known affectionately as our TREEage (like triage) Director – a FOLO volunteer who has taken over main responsibility for maintaining our live oak nursery at the Virginia Tech Hampton Roads Agricultural Research & Extension Center located on Diamond Springs Road in Virginia Beach.

Please send us your photos including a description, location and why a live oak tree or group of trees is special to you so we can share on our website and Facebook page – you can forward these to me. If you haven’t done so already, please join us as a new member or renew your membership for 2025! Remember dues and donations are tax deductible – a receipt will be provided. Details on how to make payment are at our website: https://friendsofliveoaks.org/join-us/

PLEASE NOTE

On June 16th we will resume our regular meeting schedule and will meet in person at our usual location – the Virginia Beach Environmental Studies Program Academy Macon and Joan Brock Center Classroom (at the easternmost end of the Brock Environmental Center Virginia Beach, VA 23455). We also have the option to participate in the June meeting by Zoom. Details and an agenda will be provided in advance of the meeting.