When your spouse is deployed even the smallest of tasks can feel daunting. So having someone else say, “Don’t worry about your lawn, we’ve got you.” can mean the world. That’s what Project Evergreen does.

Project Evergreen’s mission is to bring people together to make a difference in how yards, parks, and communities create a greener, healthier, cooler Earth. And around 2006 they realized that they could accomplish their mission in another way. By giving the gift of greenspace to our troops. Hence GreenCare for Troops was created.

GreenCare for Troops offers primarily maintenance services – lawn mowing, trimming hedges, fertilizing, weed control, pest control, fall leaf cleanup, and snow removal. The services are for the entire length of deployment and are free of charge. To register, go to the website and click on the Greencare for troops and there is a form to fill out.

Military families face many challenges when their loved one is deployed. Project EverGreen’s GreenCare for Troops program connects military families across the nation to complimentary lawn and landscape services, while their SnowCare for Troops program provides complimentary snow removal services. This needs-based program is available for active-duty deployed service members of the rank of E-6 and below, including all military branches. 

Our guest today, Ki Matsko, is a graduate of Lake Erie College in Ohio. She has been the program director of GreenCare for Troop and SnowCare for Troops since 2014 and has been a military advocate throughout her life as the daughter of a WW2 veteran who is a healthy 95 years old! Her oldest son graduated from West Point in 2019 and currently serves in the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. She resides in the Cleveland area with her husband, two other children, both in college and three dogs.

Listeners, if you would like to learn more about GreenCare for Troops or SnowCare for Troops, you can find them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. You can also pop over to their website, projectevergreen.org, to check out all of the resources that they have to offer.

Resource Recon with Amanda and Chrissy

This week’s spotlight comes from AWN’s Assistant Content Editor, Angie Andrews with her post entitled: “Ghosts of Duty Stations Past.”

We’re currently stationed on Okinawa, a place pretty well known for ghost stories. I never paid it much mind, except for when our cats are staring at things that aren’t there and chasing invisible apparitions into the “ghost closet,” as we lovingly call it. But, spooky October is here and has brought with it some ghosts of duty stations past…

Of course, let’s not forget everyone’s favorite haunt no matter which day of the year you might find yourself taking it on—the DMV.

Empowerment Patrol Report with Amanda

Today we are showcasing two of our volunteers who are MRE (Motivated and Ready to Empower) winners:

Angie Andrews, Assistant Content Editor

Angie is a lucky lady. Lucky, and blessed to be a wife and an Army wife to boot. She lives in Japan with her husband and two cats, Hunter and Matthews. Angie and her husband were married in 2013, and he began his military career in 2008. They met in Florida,