Nature Blog

Today it was a beautiful day! Perfect for restoring a 15,000 sq.ft. area! We were only expecting at most 20 people, but when 42 showed up for the Duwamish Alive! Saturday at Cooper Elementary, we were more than surprised, we were ecstatic!After going over tool safety, we hit our start point with full force. Some…

Today, kids from the Nature Consortium’s Youth Arts Program came out to learn a little about planting and maintaining trees! Each with their partner were equipped with a shovel and a Shorepine. We demonstrated how to properly plant a tree; making sure that the hole was deep enough, the roots were broken up, the root…

It had been awhile since we visited our Cooper site. The growback was manageable and today we focused on an area that had been previously maintained very well. Our primary task was to pull up 2nd/3rd growth blackberry through an already sheet mulched area, and we focused on minimizing disruption of the underlying cardboard. The…

On Tues. and Thurs. we have a group out from Truman High School and The Big Picture school. The two groups collaboration will result in a phenomenal change to one of the greenbelts lesser used and lesser appealing trails. With their forces combined they will orchestrate the initial process for starting a project, compile a…

Today we had a larger work party of 50 people. We hosted 38 students from Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and it was also an open work party. The Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS) also joined us to work on their site in the lower Soundway. We split up into three groups; the first group worked…

Today we had a very fervent group of fifth graders come out from Tilden Elementary. As we started our hike in, we stopped a little ways in to talk to our young guests about producers, consumers, and decomposers. They became engaged with an activity which displayed a food web and the importance of the functions…