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Power Hour with University Prep!
Last fall we had all of the seventh graders from University Prep out to do some blackberry removal, and they enjoyed it so much they came back with the whole school! Around 200 students and faculty came out for about an hour and a half and they dug up almost 10,000 sq.ft. of blackberry root…
Good golly, check out 12th & Holly!
We have been incredibly busy in the Greenbelt, especially over on SW Holly St. between 12th Ave. and 14th Ave. We currently have a full-time crew of folks from Seattle Youth Employment Program working with us, and they have been blazing through the Himalayan blackberry at the corner of 12th and Holly. So far they…
MLK Weekend of Service!
This year we decided to honor the MLK holiday with an entire weekend of service projects in order to make having “a day on, not a day off” more accessible to everyone. We had three amazing days filled with perfect weather (nearly 60 degrees on MLK Day!), great attitudes, and hard working volunteers. Over the…
Free the trees!
“What’s so bad about English ivy?” This is a fairly common question asked by newcomers to the Greenbelt, and the answer is usually preceded by a very deep breath because the list of what’s bad about English ivy is so long.As the name may lead you to believe, English ivy is not native to the…
12/5/09 Morning frost and the physics of leverage
If you think it’s hard to distinguish the native trailing blackberry from the invasive Himalayan blackberry, imagine them both covered in a layer of frost on a cold, bright morning. Luckily, we were working in a slow-growing patch of sun up at Pigeon Point Park and the frost melted away pretty quickly. We have been…
11-14-09 Party in the Park!
11-14-09 Party in the Park! This morning we discovered the power of positive thinking as everyone on Nature Consortium staff (and I suspect many of our work party participants) had spent the week hoping for a rain-free event. If you have been out to work with us before, perhaps you have heard buphalo say, “There…