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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…
Green Seattle Day
Green Seattle Day is an annual city-wide day of service organized by the Green Seattle Partnership. Last Saturday, we at Nature Consortium hosted one of the 16 Green Seattle Day restoration sites. It was a great event! We started off the day digging up blackberry and thistle that had grown back after the initial removal,…
10-29-09 Eastside Catholic School
A sea of sixth graders (around 70 students!) from Eastside Catholic School joined us out at Pigeon Point Park today and we unleashed them on the massive blackberry bramble we battled throughout the summer. There was a lot of maintenance to be done and new ground to be gained, and this group powered through both…
Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance
Last week we had work parties out at our Allstar site, which is located about a half mile from our office and is bisected by Longfellow Creek. Volunteers found a newt in the grass and Coho salmon were seen making their way upstream- who knew there could be so much wildlife right next to a…
10-17-09 Duwamish Alive!
The sky opened up and let loose this morning, as if to let us know that it is, in fact, time to start planting. Despite the impressive downpour, 118 brave and wonderful souls came out to the Duwamish Alive! event that we co-hosted with EarthCorps. This large group of volunteers was split into five different…