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Delridge Community Gathers to Celebrate Summer at Roxhill Park
On June 15, residents from Delridge and surrounding neighborhoods gathered at Roxhill Park for Summer Solstice Fest to celebrate the beginning of the season and learn about community resources and upcoming infrastructure projects in the area. Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) welcomed over 100 community members to the park as part of a series of…
Little Heroes Planting Big Dreams: Kids Lead Forest Revival
Along with all the cedars and ferns, one of our favorite things we grew this year was our relationship with Roxhill Elementary School students and teachers! In 2023, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) began doing forest restoration work at EC Hughes Playground Park in the Longfellow Creek Watershed. EC Hughes is an approximately 6-acre landscaped…
Moving Forest Restoration, Artistry and Equitable Housing Stewardship Forward: A Night in the Woods to Remember
As we set forth for a lively summer programming season, the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) hosted Wine in the Woods on June 1st to celebrate community, passion for art, and dedication to environmental justice. Our team was filled with joy as we reminisced about the magical evening we all shared at Wine in the…
Earth Month 2024: Energetic kindergarteners, new sites, and lots of volunteers!
Earth Month is always a whirlwind here at Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA), and April 2024 was no exception. DNDA’s Nature team hosted 16 community events in April and worked with more than 300 community and student volunteers — our largest numbers since 2015. We have written elsewhere about hosting our first-ever volunteer event at…
Kids embark on adventures, learn to rock climb at Camp Long
In April, fifteen elementary and middle school students spent their spring break with Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) at our ninth annual EcoArts Spring Nature Camp. For five days, the kids explored the forests and trails of Camp Long — a 68-acre urban forest located in Delridge — with boundless curiosity. The camp is hosted…
Plant Profile: Sunshine brings pearly everlasting
Every summer, people from all around the Pacific Northwest travel to Washington to take in the millions of native wildflowers growing along the Columbia River. Many do not know how easy it is to replicate a native wildflower meadow in their own backyard, or even in a window box! Wildflowers are great for pollinators, and…
Heading North: Introducing our new restoration site
Just in time for April’s Earth Month, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association’s (DNDA) Nature team is expanding our reach northward to a new forest restoration site in the Duwamish Head Greenbelt! Through DNDA’s long-term relationship with the Green Seattle Partnership, our team will be starting restoration work at a site near Seacrest Park in the Fairmount…
Nurturing Our Neighborhoods: Bandit Theater bringing improv to communities
There are countless nonprofits working to build community every day, but not many do it like Bandit Theater. “We realized that the best way to build community through comedy is to bring comedy to community,” said Annie Barry, the founder and artistic director of Bandit Theater. After working in comedy theaters across the country for…
6PPD: How it harms salmon and what DNDA is doing to help
When rain falls, as it did on 120 days in Seattle last year, it usually lands on hard surfaces, like sidewalks, streets, rooftops, and cars. As it makes its way toward storm drains, the water carries pollution from microplastics, fertilizers, trash, tires, and other contaminants. Normally, this rainwater is collected and cleaned by wastewater treatment…