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Empowering young minds
We took a trip to John Hay Elementary school in Queen Anne. We are in process of starting a project that we hope will continue even after these kids move on to the next grade. With the help of their teacher Ms. Burke, our team was able to come in and implant some ideas in…
Growing with what we plant
Today a group of toddlers came out and helped to plant several 1-gallon potted Salal in the West Duwamish Greenbelt. Assisted by their parents, they learned how to plant and water our little native friends. These plants are close in age with these little ones and as they grow up, the Salal they planted will…
Clearing a path
As our interns efforts are constantly challenging, today they partook in something creative and original. They created a passageway through blackberry onto a downhill slope in order to more easily transport mulch to other work sites in the greenbelt. Starting from the top of the hill, they cut and cleared through blackberry, then as they…
Saturday October 25th
It was a beautiful day Saturday, thanks to everyone who volunteered! After a brief introduction we got right to work maintaining a 2,400 sq ft area by removing invasive Himalayan Blackberry, Tansy Ragwort, and Thistle. When we finished cleaning the area, we discussed sheet mulching. All together, we mulched 350 sq ft of land. The…
Tuesday, Oct. 21
Thank you Computer Associates for coming out -it was a beautiful day. We started the day with an introduction and a walk though the woods. after this we got right to work. We worked in a 1000 sq ft area. We pulled and cut invasive Himalayan Blackberry. We also pulled out invasive English Ivy and…
Saturday October 18th
After a brief introduction and demonstration we got right to work removing Himalayan blackberry. We focused our attention on a 1031 sq ft area that needed to be maintained. We removed many root bulbs, and it didn’t take long for clear patches to appear. After the blackberry was removed we put down cardboard to prepare…
Duwamish Alive! 10_11_08
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.…
Helping hands, helping plant!
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…
Showin some love to Cooper!
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…