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December 08, 2024 |
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help us dig blackberries and ivyDecember 08, 10am-1pm @ Martha Washington Park help us dig out blackberries and ivy to make more room for native plants, we will work in the rain, if it's snowy or windy not so much more |
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Llandover Woods December Planting DayDecember 08, 9am-12pm @ Llandover Woods Greenspace It's planting season in the pacific NW! On Sunday, December 8th we will be planting berry bushes to provide food for animals, and trees for all of the positive things that trees do for us and the environment. We will also continue clean-up efforts following the fallout from the late November "bomb cyclone" that downed trees and left behind lots of debris. As time permits we may also do some light trail maintenance. It should be a fun morning, full of opportunities for immediate gratification. more |
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Magnuson ReforestationDecember 08, 10am-1pm @ Warren G. Magnuson Park Help improve habitat and create replacement forest on a formerly denuded navy airfield. (Above photo taken in Navy era). The aim is to create healthy forest habitat and increase beneficial ecosystem services including provision of human enjoyment and health. It is also an opportunity to enjoy nature and learn a bit about native plants while doing satisfying work. Work is most likely to include removing invasive plants like ivy and blackberry but may also include other tasks such as distributing wood chip mulch or planting if plants are available. Because the work may be beyond capability of youth below high school age, please get the leader’s permission before registering if younger. more |
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South meadow final planting partyDecember 08, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Come help us create more high-quality habitat by planting more native plants at Lizard Haven and surrounding areas. We have about 70 more plants to finish off the planting season. For a great introduction to the primary task of the day, check out the training video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7crHl4T2Ttw more |
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Northacres Stewardship TeamDecember 10, 10am-1pm @ Northacres Park Join us as we establish new plantings and remove weeds, such as blackberry and ivy, to promote the future tree canopy and enhance wildlife habitat. All ages, abilities and experience levels are welcome and encouraged to join the effort. more |
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Frink Land & Community TendingDecember 11, 11am-4pm @ Frink Park Futures Rising: Restoration & Co-creation and Seattle Parks and Recreation are partnering to offer this Land-based Arts, Food Sovereignty, Community Care practice space centering BIPOC community, and opened to all of our relations. This space offers our community opportunity to practice land restoration, stewardship, plant identification, field experience, tools and safety, food sovereignty, plant medicine, art, community, survival skills, culinary skills, and space and time to connect with the land and each other. This space will be facilitated by an intergenerational rotating crew of BIPOC Mentors who live to share and resource the next generation of brilliant humans. All tools and equipment needed to work will be provided. This space is intergenerational and all are welcome to attend! This space has held human beings traditionally as a space to cross from saltwater to freshwater. Frink was one of the spaces that was protected due to the extreme inclines. Remnant forest surrounds beautiful wetlands. This area has a history of redlining, part of our work is to reestablish ourselves in these spaces that once pushed us out. Over the last year we (including many community partners and stewards) have planted and tended foods and medicines. We will be creating more space for new plants arriving towards the end of October. Please come and join us while we tend this space. more |
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Magnuson Sports MeadowDecember 12, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Warren G. Magnuson Park Join us as we establish plants in this newly reforested area that will help create a contiguous wildlife corridor through the park. We will primarily be weeding and amending soil with arborist chips. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. more |
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Daybreak Star Land & Community TendingDecember 14, 10am-3pm @ Daybreak Star Futures Rising: Restoration & Co-creation and Seattle Parks and Recreation are partnering to offer this Land-based Arts, Food Sovereignty, Community Care practice space centering BIPOC community, and opened to all of our relations. This space offers our community opportunity to practice land restoration, stewardship, plant identification, field experience, tools and safety, food sovereignty, plant medicine, art, community, survival skills, culinary skills, and space and time to connect with the land and each other. This space will be facilitated by an intergenerational rotating crew of BIPOC Mentors who live to share and resource the next generation of brilliant humans. All tools and equipment needed to work will be provided. This space is intergenerational and all are welcome to attend! Daybreak Star is a beautiful and powerful reminder of resistance and insistence, the ability to transform a toxic environment into sanctuary. Over the last four years we have planted and tended foods and medicines. We will be creating more space for new plants arriving towards the end of October. Please come and join us while we tend this space. more |
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Golden Gardens Park Work PartyDecember 14, 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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Have Fun, Get FitDecember 14, 10am-1pm @ Licton Springs Park Maintenance: weeding, mulching, light pruning. more |
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Moving Mucho Mulch at Water Way 19December 14, 9am-12:30pm @ Waterway 19 We'll be moving wood chip mulch on to newly cleared areas at Water Way 19 on the eastern edge of Gas Works Park more |
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Planting along Thornton CreekDecember 14, 10am-2pm @ Kingfisher Natural Area on TC We will be planting newly arrived plants and trees into a previously worked area. There is some blackberry removal available for those who would rather do clearing in this zone. This is creek adjacent work area that is dry, but may be shaded. more |
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Cheasty Forest at Hanford StepsDecember 15, 1pm-3pm @ Cheasty GS: Cheasty Blvd Please help to restore this site to the beautiful forest it once was. We will plant native trees, shrubs, ferns and ground cover to make the forest more diverse and a healthy habitat for plants, birds and other animals. more |
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Planting in PritchardDecember 15, 10am-1pm @ Pritchard Island Beach the City has given us a bunch of plants, help us plant them to keep the park green and welcoming for all more |
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Frink Land & Community TendingDecember 18, 11am-4pm @ Frink Park Futures Rising: Restoration & Co-creation and Seattle Parks and Recreation are partnering to offer this Land-based Arts, Food Sovereignty, Community Care practice space centering BIPOC community, and opened to all of our relations. This space offers our community opportunity to practice land restoration, stewardship, plant identification, field experience, tools and safety, food sovereignty, plant medicine, art, community, survival skills, culinary skills, and space and time to connect with the land and each other. This space will be facilitated by an intergenerational rotating crew of BIPOC Mentors who live to share and resource the next generation of brilliant humans. All tools and equipment needed to work will be provided. This space is intergenerational and all are welcome to attend! This space has held human beings traditionally as a space to cross from saltwater to freshwater. Frink was one of the spaces that was protected due to the extreme inclines. Remnant forest surrounds beautiful wetlands. This area has a history of redlining, part of our work is to reestablish ourselves in these spaces that once pushed us out. Over the last year we (including many community partners and stewards) have planted and tended foods and medicines. We will be creating more space for new plants arriving towards the end of October. Please come and join us while we tend this space. more |
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3rd Saturday forest restoration at Jackson Park Trail!December 21, 10am-2pm @ Jackson Park Golf Course Help restore native plants along this lovely trail around the public golf course. We're out there every third Saturday. Enjoy the birds, trees, Thornton Creek, and views into the golf course (and the occasional golf ball find!) more |
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Carkeek STARS Work PartyDecember 21, 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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Cheasty Blvd - 3rd Saturday Cheasty Main (North Loop)December 21, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Cheasty GS: Cheasty Blvd We have received over 1,000 plants. For this event, we will be preparing and planting areas cleared of invasive plants last winter by volunteers and the natural areas crews. We received a separate order of ferns to plant along the new mountain bike trails mostly north of View Point Park. To the south, we will be planting in newly cleared areas near the stream. We look forward to seeing you! more |
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Daybreak Star Land & Community TendingDecember 21, 10am-3pm @ Daybreak Star Futures Rising: Restoration & Co-creation and Seattle Parks and Recreation are partnering to offer this Land-based Arts, Food Sovereignty, Community Care practice space centering BIPOC community, and opened to all of our relations. This space offers our community opportunity to practice land restoration, stewardship, plant identification, field experience, tools and safety, food sovereignty, plant medicine, art, community, survival skills, culinary skills, and space and time to connect with the land and each other. This space will be facilitated by an intergenerational rotating crew of BIPOC Mentors who live to share and resource the next generation of brilliant humans. All tools and equipment needed to work will be provided. This space is intergenerational and all are welcome to attend! Daybreak Star is a beautiful and powerful reminder of resistance and insistence, the ability to transform a toxic environment into sanctuary. Over the last four years we have planted and tended foods and medicines. We will be creating more space for new plants arriving towards the end of October. Please come and join us while we tend this space. more |
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East Duwamish Work PartyDecember 21, 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; but always having a good time! more |
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Weeding and Cleaning in Dead Horse CanyonDecember 21, 9am-1pm @ Lakeridge Park Celebrate the Winter Solstice with friends helping to keep Dead Horse Canyon a beautiful place and discover its winter charms. more |
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blackberries BE GONE!December 28, 10am-1pm @ Genesee Park and Playfield help me dig blackberries,ivy and whatever other weeds we find to make space for more native plant more |
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Daybreak Star Land & Community TendingDecember 28, 10am-3pm @ Daybreak Star Futures Rising: Restoration & Co-creation and Seattle Parks and Recreation are partnering to offer this Land-based Arts, Food Sovereignty, Community Care practice space centering BIPOC community, and opened to all of our relations. This space offers our community opportunity to practice land restoration, stewardship, plant identification, field experience, tools and safety, food sovereignty, plant medicine, art, community, survival skills, culinary skills, and space and time to connect with the land and each other. This space will be facilitated by an intergenerational rotating crew of BIPOC Mentors who live to share and resource the next generation of brilliant humans. All tools and equipment needed to work will be provided. This space is intergenerational and all are welcome to attend! Daybreak Star is a beautiful and powerful reminder of resistance and insistence, the ability to transform a toxic environment into sanctuary. Over the last four years we have planted and tended foods and medicines. We will be creating more space for new plants arriving towards the end of October. Please come and join us while we tend this space. more |
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South Meadow Scotch Broom PatrolDecember 28, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Did you know that cutting young scotch broom in wintertime doesn't hurt them one bit. But pulling them out of the wet loose soil is 100% effective. Scotch broom really stands out this time of year (especially in the brown meadows) and are easy to pull in the wet soils. We've got extractigators, weed wrenches, uprooters and heavy-duty shovels to remove these prolific pests. more |
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do we still have plants?December 29, 10am-1pm @ Pritchard Island Beach if we still have plants left, help us plant;if not we have blackberries, ivy, and morning glory, so please help us dig weeds more |
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South Meadow Scotch Broom PatrolDecember 30, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Did you know that cutting young scotch broom in wintertime doesn't hurt them one bit. But pulling them out of the wet loose soil is 100% effective. Scotch broom really stands out this time of year (especially in the brown meadows) and are easy to pull in the wet soils. We've got extractigators, weed wrenches, uprooters and heavy-duty shovels to remove these prolific pests. more |
