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June 01, 2026 |
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Clearing the hillside by the west parking lot at Matthews Beach ParkJune 01, 9am-12:30pm @ Matthews Beach Park We'll be weeding out the hillside at the west main parking lot at Matthews Beach more |
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Woodland Park - blackberry removalJune 02, 10am-12pm @ Woodland Park Come join us in clearing blackberry patches in Woodland Park! Earlier this spring, the Seattle Parks and Rec machine cleared 2 large patches. We made great progress a few weeks ago, so we'll continue to dig out the rootballs and new growth, and stacking them on compost piles. more |
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Bamboo be gone!June 03, 9am-12:30pm @ Matthews Beach Park We'll be cutting Bamboo, weeding and clearing a Trail down to the lake more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingJune 04, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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Lizard Haven weeding partyJune 04, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Lizard Haven is a restoration site that was planted a couple of years back. The area is thriving but there are also invasive weeds (including Himalayan blackberry and creeping thistle). We will be avoiding the thistle and focusing on the blackberry and cleavers. All tools will be provided. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingJune 05, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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More Weeding from 45th Ave NE heading east on the TrailJune 05, 9am-12pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our weeding program on this section of the B-G Trail more |
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College Street Ravine / Work PartyJune 06, 9am-1pm @ College Street Ravine A group of neighbors will be working on removing invasives (blackberry, ivy, clematis, holly, etc) and potentially finishing some trail building that the scouts are doing in the coming weeks, spreading wood chips along the length of the trail. more |
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Early summer watering and invasive removalJune 06, 1pm-3pm @ Ravenna Park Summer is here, and that (maybe) means watering, and always means invasive removal. It's time to make sure all the hard work and trees that we planted in the fall survive the summer to grow and make the park beautiful. more |
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Root in RecipriocityJune 06, 10am-12:30pm @ Seward Park Caring for the land that cares for us. The land around us has been scarred by pollution, carved over by development, and fragmented by development expansion. To live in reciprocity means to give back, to tend, and to restore what has been lost. Are you in good relations with the land? By stepping into this work, we have the chance to give back, repair habitats, support native wildlife, and strengthen our connection to the Land. Restoration is our way of returning care to the land that has long sustained us. Join us at Seward Park Audubon Center for Root in Reciprocity: Tend Together. Together, we’ll be engaging in either the removal and repurpose of introduced species, plant native flora, and restore habitats that sustain birds, pollinators, and the broader ecosystem. All tools, guidance, and materials are provided, just bring your curiosity, care, and willingness to get your hands in the soil. more |
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Invasive Blast at Beaver Pond Natural AreaJune 07, 10am-12pm @ Beaver Pond Natural Area on TC Join us for a spring blitz on returning invasive species and help native plants at Beaver Pond Natural Area thrive to provide continued habitat for fish, birds and other critters. Some of these are easy to pull out like Herb Robert, Cleavers, and Nipplewort. For those of you who like a little more challenge, there is plenty of ivy and blackberry for the digging. Most work areas are relatively level and easy to access. If storms bring heavy showers, the work party will be rescheduled. more |
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Mapes Creek Stewardship PracticeJune 07, 12pm-4pm @ Kubota Gardens Natural Area These events are less about work and more about connecting and learning. We spent last summer getting introduced to the land, the creek, and the way humans and creatures move around and interact. To continue this introduction and be able to move more clearly and safely, our next focus is foot path. Other activities: tend our plant nursery, ivy, and making art. We will open with a site tour and project introduction this project and what it offers in the realm of re-indigenizing land stewardship. Folks are welcome to come in and out for any duration of the event window, but consider that the site tour is offered only at the beginning of the event. Snacks and warm drinks provided 🍵 Please bring cup/bowl/utensils 🌲Trillium Sustainability offers this justice-oriented container as an opportunity to build connections, learn, practice, heal, create, and weave resilient communities anchored in land and water. more |
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Back to the Trail making weeds disappearJune 08, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our regular yearly weeding along the Trail heading east to Princeton Bridge more |
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Miyawaki forest restoration and maintenance.June 09, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park We are experimenting with a modified Miyawaki style forested restoration where we are using live stakes densely planted amongst standard forest restoration spacing to create a dense planting to shade out Himalayan blackberries. This area was planted last fall but needs a little bit of care this year to make sure the intended plants are thriving. This will involve a lot of pulling cleavers, thistle, blackberry resprouts and perennial pea to give room for the native plants to thrive. All tools will be provided. more |
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Stantec in the Community - 2026 Annual WorkpartyJune 09, 12pm-3pm @ Cheasty GS: Cheasty Blvd Come help restore native habitat for birds and other wildlife by removing invasive ivy and blackberry in the heart of South Seattle. Enjoy the added benefit of spending time in a beautiful forest while getting to know your coworkers. Join us in restoring Cheasty so future generations can enjoy the old‑growth conifer forest you helped protect. During this work party we will be removing blackberry, collecting garbage, and mulching recent plantings to help young trees survive the dry summer months. This marks Year 13 for SITC at Cheasty — thank you for being part of this long‑standing effort! more |
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More Weeding from 45th Ave NE heading east on the TrailJune 10, 9am-12pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our weeding program on this section of the B-G Trail more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingJune 11, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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South Meadow Blackberry PurgeJune 11, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Help us make way for more native plant habitat by removing the many invasive blackberry plants encroaching on the south meadow. This will be a little bit of cutting back the blackberry out of the forest edge of the meadow and a bit of digging up roots. All tools will be provided. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingJune 12, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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End of SpringJune 13, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Join us as we remove non native plants from the St. Mark's Greenbelt ravine. more |
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Friends of Discovery ParkJune 13, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-rich area in Discovery Park. Come help us increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching to aerate the soil and encourage growth of symbiotic fungi, and plant this years native shrubs and groundcovers. more |
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Golden Gardens Park work partiesJune 13, 9am-12pm @ Golden Gardens Park Do you want to restore the forest at Golden Gardens Park? Come out and help us the second Saturday of every month. We remove invasive weeds and plant native species that return the forest to a more natural ecosystem. We provide tools and training so we only need your enthusiasm to help restore this beautiful park. more |
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Green Lake weeding around our plantingsJune 13, 9am-12pm @ Green Lake Park It is exciting that our plantings are leafing out and blooming! We need to clear the weeds from around them and to mulch and water so that they will have a great growing season. more |
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HAVE FUN, GET FITJune 13, 10am-1pm @ Licton Springs Park Removing invasive plants, mulching with woodchips all year. Planting in the Fall, more |
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Longfellow Creek Community Restoration DayJune 13, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Central Join the ECOSS team for a morning in nature, working on our habitat restoration site, and meet fellow ECOSS community members. We will be removing non-native plants for recently planted and more established plants to continue thriving. more |
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Orchard Street Ravine Work PartyJune 13, 10am-1pm @ Orchard Street Ravine Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning restoring and preserving our native forest. more |
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Pulling ivy and watering plants with Schmitz Park RestoreJune 13, 10am-12pm @ Schmitz Preserve Park Help the community group, Schmitz Park Restore, water native plants and remove ivy to make more room for more native plants that will support birds, insects, salamanders and other wildlife 🦅 more |
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Sturtevant Ravine Work Party!June 13, 9am-11am @ Sturtevant Ravine Help continue forest restoration at the Ravine! We will clearing out blackberry and other plants that are surrounding native plants that need our support. more |
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Westcrest Park- Pollinator Pride CelebrationJune 13, 9am-12pm @ Westcrest Park Join Dirt Corps this June to celebrate Polinator Pride and help us care for this section of the West Duwamish Greenbelt. We'll be learning about all the beautiful, colorful, and resilient native pollinators and how biodiversity in Westcrest Park is important to keeping our communities vibrant and healthy. We'll then care for our restoration area by applying mulch around the native plants and trees, removing weeds (looking at you, blackberry! a yummy but gnarly invasive species), and performing other important landscape maintenance. We hope to see you there! more |
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Prideful Stewardship with Colman QueersJune 14, 10am-12pm @ Colman Park Have you relished in the goodness of Colman's shores? If so, it might be time to give her back some LOVE. Spend some of your Pride Month by stewarding Colman Parks' shoreline with your neighbors!! Let's help Lake Washington have the healthy shoreline habitat it deserves by clearing out some non-native blackberry and make space to plant native berries and other native trees and shrubs this fall. If your body has a hard time doing physical labor, I encourage you to still come and enjoy the park with us and maybe share with neighbors why stewarding Colman feels important to you. I will do my very best to provide snacks, but it all depends on the economy and capacity. It's possible the neighboring beach, Mount Baker, has bathrooms however, I'm uncertain if it is still closed from last years fire incident. This event is for Queers and wholehearted allies that love Colman <3 more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingJune 18, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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Pulling ivy with A Cleaner Alki and Whole FoodsJune 18, 1pm-3pm @ Schmitz Preserve Park The community group, A Cleaner Alki, is partnering with Whole Foods to remove ivy to make room for native plants that will support birds, salamanders, insects and other wildlife 🦅 more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingJune 19, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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Juneteenth WateringJune 19, 1pm-3pm @ Ravenna Park It's Juneteenth, and what better way to honor the past than to take care of our public spaces? At this event we'll be watering the native plants and shrubs we put in during the fall to make sure they survive the summer. Secondary objective is always invasive removal - ivy and blackberry. more |
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Carkeek STARS Work PartyJune 20, 9am-12pm @ Carkeek Park Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning of forest restoration and trails maintenance. We have a wide variety of tasks you can help with. Adults and teenagers welcome. If you are a group of 5 or more contact Dale Johnson. Follow the STARS signs to our meeting place, which will be the parking lot at the Environmental Learning Center. Welcome! more |
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East Duwamish Work PartyJune 20, 10am-12pm @ East Duwamish GS: S Chicago St Help take care of the forest along this neighborhood trail! Depending on the time of the year, we'll be pulling and removing ivy, cutting back and digging out blackberry or planting new plants; and always having a good time! more |
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Cheasty Forest at Hanford StepsJune 21, 1pm-3pm @ Cheasty GS: Cheasty Blvd We will be weeding and mulching around trees and new plantings, which are engulfed in bindweed, blackberries and ivy. We may also water some new plantings on an exposed and sunny patch. more |
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Friends of Discovery ParkJune 21, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-rich area in Discovery Park. Come help us increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching to aerate the soil and encourage growth of symbiotic fungi, and plant this years native shrubs and groundcovers. more |
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Ravenna Park RestoreJune 21, 10am-12pm @ Ravenna Park Come enjoy the beauty of summer in Seattle! We will be returning to a site that received some TLC last fall and winter to clear out non-native plants that are creeping back in, check up on the plants we put in over the winter, and start to clear out another section in preparation for replanting this coming winter! There will be something for everyone, and lots of puns! more |
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Private work party with SalesforceJune 26, 10am-12pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail Private work Party with Salesforce more |
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3rd Saturday forest restoration at Jackson Park Trail!June 27, 10am-2pm @ Jackson Park Golf Course Enjoy the "natural areas" along the Jackson Park golf course perimeter trail. We'll walk to a work area and continue to make progress removing invasive ivy and blackberries, planting native plants, weeding, or mulching, as the season demands! more |
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Kubota forest work - always ivy!June 27, 10am-12pm @ Kubota Gardens Natural Area So much ivy! Every month, volunteers work on removing ivy so that trees, bushes, ferns and other native plants have room to grow. As you will quickly see, the ivy covers large areas of ground and is climbing up trees. We also are discovering small Himalayan blackberry plants and getting those out immediately is a priority. No experience is needed - just bring your energy and interest in making a difference! Did I mention the homemade cookies? more |
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Summer BeginsJune 27, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Join us for the first and last work party in summer 2026 at St. Mark's Greenbelt, as we remove non native plants near Cathedral Creek running through the greenbelt. more |
