News
Follow DNDA and Youngstown Socials
Stay Connected with DNDA
Blog
January 24, 2009
We started the day with invasive removal, and we were able to remove 600 sq ft of invasive Himalayan blackberry. While we were working, we listened to Marc Smason on the trumpet. After the blackberry removal, we moved on to sheet mulching. We were able to sheet mulch 300 sq ft. Once we finished mulching,…
MLK Day — A day of Service
It started out as a foggy day, but by then end of it the sun shone through just like our efforts. We had a whopping 122 people out at our MLK day event. People were really in the spirit of service and came prepared to volunteer. Thank you again to everyone who participated and made…
Saturday January 17, 2009
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…
Collaborating in restoration
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.…
Saturday January 10, 2009
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!
Happy new year!
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…
12-6-08
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).…
Saturday November 29th
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.
November 26th
It turned out to be a beautiful day. We worked at our Cooper Elementary Site today with University Prep. We began the day by removing 10,000 sq ft of invasive Himalayan Blackberry and by staging a 50,000 sq ft area with plants. While we were working we took some time to enjoy the snacks brought…