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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…
Interns!!!!
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…
9-27-08 SPU
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…
Fifth grade service learning
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…
9-20-08
The rain was pouring Saturday Sept. 20, but it was no worry for our small group. We took on 900 sq. ft. of second growth Himalayan blackberry. Some in which had been growing up from underneath some coconut husk called coir. As it got colder and wetter, our morale was boosted by the sweet tunes…
9-12-08 United Way Day of Caring
Today, Friday (12th) the weather was beautiful as we had a large and enthusiastic group of 64 adults that came out from Microsoft for the United way Day of Caring event.As people arrived, we got kicked off doing some maintenance digging of Himalayan blackberries. Some worked on large root balls, while others partook in the…
Summer Wind Down
As the summer draws to a close, it’s exciting to look back over the past couple of weeks and the work that’s been accomplished. All in all, by the end of the summer over 2 acres of invasive plant species were removed in the Greenbelt! Volunteers from Camp Metigoshe, Seattle Works/DDB, City Year, the Cool…
Summer Craziness!
Sorry for not posting for a few weeks. The summer has been crazy, but highly productive. buphalo and I have been out in the Greenbelt Monday-Saturday for the past 3 weeks thus the lack of posts. We’ve been working with our summer youth employees from the Seattle Youth Employment Program (SYEP) and the Seattle Teen…