Our local Arrowhead chapter has several ongoing projects, including the community garden in Leif Erikson Park; plant rescues; efforts to battle buckthorn, honeysuckle, and other invasive exotic plants; helping the Loaves and Fishes house and possibly Habitat for Humanity with landscaping; and many more.
2010 projects at the Hartley Nature Center:
Summer Greetings Wild Ones Members and Friends!
Hope you're all enjoying your plants in your gardens and wild plants around you. The nodding trillium, columbine and blue bead lily, (among lots-o-others!) are blooming away in the woods in Hartley now.
We are gearing up to start our volunteer projects at Hartley Nature Center for the summer, one of which is to maintain our large and lovely Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden, as well as our Water Garden.
Wild Ones has offered to work 92 hours of volunteer service within the grounds of Hartley Nature Center in exchange for using Hartley for our meeting space for Wild Ones meetings. Please help to contribute a few hours toward this commitment. In the past, Wild Ones members work along with other community volunteers and teach, learn and work together...it's a great opportunity to have a nice time and make your local nature center beautiful!
VOLUNTEER EVENINGS IN THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN
What: Two Thursday evenings per month we are hosting a volunteer project within our gardens here at Hartley Nature Center and would love to have you join us! Our evenings will be spent in either our Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden or Water Garden weeding, labelling plants, spreading mulch or planting new baby plants. Come to see what's blooming in the gardens, learn something new, get to know your fellow Hartley supporters and enjoy your community-supported nature center.
Who: YOU! All ages are invited (kids please be accompanied by an adult). No experience necessary, just come and join us.
When: Thursday, June 3, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, June 17, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, July 1, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, July 15, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, August 5, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, August 15, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, September 2, 6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, September 16, 6:00-8:00 pm
What's blooming in the gardens right now: blue-eyed grass, columbine, wild geranium, bicknell's geranium, golden alexander, strawberry, canada anemone, red-osier dogwood, pin cherry, lupine
Cost: No cost
Where: Meet at Hartley Nature Center
3001 Woodland Ave
Duluth, MN 55803
724-6735
www.hartleynature.org
Joy Turnbull Dunham
Early Childhood and School Program Coordinator
Hartley Nature Center
218-724-6735
If you are interested in learning more or getting involved with any of these activities, please give Carol a call or send a note via e-mail.
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