With warmer weather on the horizon (not just
global warming) the digging season is drawing towards a short term
close. We have two more events scheduled for this month and will then be
focusing on our next round of grant applications, management and
distribution of plants on hand, and construction of additional plant
salvage propagation and holding facilities at the Meadow Park Golf
Course.
Greetings Native Plant Salvage
Volunteers - Grab your garden party hat and bring a bottle for some worm
compost tea! We have one more event scheduled for this season:
Saturday, March 29,
2008 -
Mad Hatter's Tea and
Planting Party -
9:00 - noon
This FREE and FUN event is open to the
public be held at the Meadow Park Golf Course (7108 Lakewood Drive West
- Tacoma, WA 98467 - 253-473-3033)
We will be preparing portions of the golf
course for restoration of prairie natives dug in Frederickson/SE Tacoma.
The planting effort will move the golf course towards a more sustainable
future that uses less water and fewer chemicals.
We will also be talking about soils and
demonstrating information about the brewing and effective uses of
compost tea!. Information will also be available regarding soils and
how to enhance them for a garden that thrives. Best hat worn will get
best honors! Camas bulbs will be available for volunteers who help us
with the preparations!
If you'd like to learn more about this
event, please contact me at 253.566.3342, or better by e-mail at
anna.thurston@ssstewardship.org.
If you haven't registered with us in the
past, be sure to provide us with your mailing address, a phone number
and an e-mail. If you'd like to removed from our distribution list
(something we don't share), please reply, with "Unsubscribe NPSA" listed
in the subject line.
If you are already on our distribution
list, we'll notify you of any salvaging or potting activities that occur
during the summer months, and again in September/October when rainfall
allows us to resume digging in earnest. In the interim we hope you'll
check into our website (with NEW UPDATES provided by our volunteer web
manager, Lee Fellenberg). Be sure to look at the section that provides
information on how to salvage and propagate native plants on your own,
which plants grow best together, plus our collection of event photos…
(always being updated).
Don't forget to bring
your hat and a bottle to take home some compost tea! See you there...
--A--
Anna Thurston - Contract
Coordinator
Native Plant Salvage Alliance
253-566-3342 h // c 253-988-7842
anna.thurston@ssstewardship.org
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