Nature Blog

Today was a nice day for restoration. We removed 600 sq.ft. of virgin Himalayan blackberry continuing the work on the slope we had done with EarthCorps. Along the hillside, there were 30 little ferns that we took out of the ground and placed in pots. Our plan is to re-plant them after the rest of…

We had a big last couple of weeks. We were selected to receive a Watershed Climate Action Grant from Seattle Public Utilities because of our hard work restoring Seattle’s forests as well as our efforts towards environmental restoration. The grant awarded us one week of Earth Corps crew time and today was their last day.…

Today there was a small but productive group. We managed to sheet mulch this area that may look small, but it is actually 196 sq.ft. As the day pressed on, we completed 700 sq.ft. of blackberry maintenance and planted 7 salal and 7 grand firs. Thank you for a successful day!

Today was our first work party back from break and it was a cold one. Thankfully, things managed to warm up a bit once we started with our sheet mulching. It was a small group, but a good one: we mulched 567 sq. ft. After taking a frigid 15 minute break, we got right back…

It looked like it was going to pour all day Saturday, but the group we had out totally lucked out. We started off our morning with initial removal. We managed to remove 1 cu.yd. of Himalayan blackberry rootballs from the bramble that our friends at University Prep took down the Wednesday before thanksgiving (see 11-26-08).…

Even though it was the Saturday after Thanksgiving we didn’t take the day off, and our group accomplished a lot. Today we planted 32 Salal and we put mulch rings around them. We also maintained a 300 sq ft area.