Projects

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.

Future projects:
• Join Wild Ones for a planting party 1 pm this Sunday, November 7, 2004, at Hartley Nature Center, 3001 Woodland Ave, Duluth.
  
  Boreal Natives has offered Wild Ones FREE end-of-the-season plants for our native landscape at Hartley Nature Center, and we need help getting them into the ground. Dress for the weather, and bring a trowel and kneeling pad if you have them. Hot drinks will be provided.
  
  This planting project will fulfill part of Wild Ones' service agreement with Hartley Nature Center. If you have any questions, please contact Carol Andrews, Arrowhead Chapter President, at 730-9954.
  
  
• HARTLEY PLANTING: (Spring, Summer and Fall)
  Volunteers are needed to plant native plants at Hartley Nature Center. Please bring your own trowel. Carol Andrews would like you to let her know if you can be there (phone 730-9954), but you are welcome to show up even if you didn't RSVP!

Featured projects from the past:
• HARTLEY PLANTING:
  Volunteers are needed to plant shrubs, plants, etc. at the new Hartley Nature Center.
  Sunday, July 6, 2003, 1:00-3:00 pm
  Tuesday, July 8, 2003, 6:30-8:30 pm
  Friday, September 19, 2003, 3:00 - 7:00 pm
  Saturday, September 20, 2003, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

• TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY (May 13 and 14, 2003):
  May brings special opportunities to bask in the warm sunshine on the Park Point dunes while risking weather, poison ivy, rain, and prickly pines. Here is your chance to share this memorable event with 150 5th-graders from Stowe and Lester Park Elementary Schools. The kids will be prepped on May 12th about dune ecology, sand, and how to plant trees and beach grass.
  
  On TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY (May 13 and 14) three classes and then four classes will come to Park Point to have a hands-on experience with combating erosion problems. They will be here to help plant trees and beach grass.
  
  TIME: The classes plan to arrive by 9:45, will divide into three groups, and start planting by 10 am. We only have them until 11, so we need "Planting Mentors" to assist them and to keep things working smoothly.
  
  Other planting opportunities will be: Saturdays, May 10, 17, 24, from 9 am to noon. If you can help, meet near the boardwalks (look for cars with shovels and buckets and boxes of trees) and bring a shovel! Also helpful are gloves, hat, sand-proof shoes.
  
  Evelyn Timm and Alden Kendall, timmken@charter.net
  
  
• Sept 21, 2002: The Spirit Valley Citizens' Neighborhood Development Association (SVCNDA) plans to plant a berm in West Duluth to improve the view from a new housing development. They will be using native plants and a design by two Wild Ones members. If anyone would be willing to help out, please contact Carol Andrews at 730-9954.

• Buckthorn Removal at Hartley Nature Center: Interested persons should contact Eric Hahn at Hartley Nature Center for more information at 724-6735.
• On Sept 21, 2002: buckthorn removal at Hartley from 9:00 AM to noon.
• Other community projects:

• The Community Earth Farm Project is in the process of transforming a community garden plot into a Food Forest. There will be a Community Earth Farm planting party on Thursday, May 29th, 2002 at 4:30 pm on 11th Ave. W. and 3rd St. If any of you have edible native plants or edible shrubs you would be willing to donate, we would be so grateful. In return, we have heirloom peppers and tomato plants to share. Please contact Kristin Stuchis @ 348-3971 or Jacob Voit @ 722-2155 for more information.
  
  Here's the invitation:
  
  Community Earth Farm GARDENING GUILD PLANTING PARTY!
  THURSDAY, MAY 29TH, 2002, 4:30 pm, on the Community Garden space at the corner of 3rd St. and 11th Ave. W.
  CELEBRATING LIFE WITH COMMUNITY, PLANT EXCHANGES, MUSIC MAKING, WISHING FLAGS, PERMACULTURE DESIGN, AND FOOD SHARING.
  
  WHAT TO BRING:
  Plants and seeds to trade, planting tools, lots of scrap fabric for making flags, permanent marker(s), instruments for jamming, food for potluck and grilling, water to drink, silverware, plates, cups, blankets to sit on, kids, parents, neighbors, friends, lovers, smiles?
  
  The guild is a group for learning and creating sustainable living. The focus will be community outreach and creating urban permaculture gardens for Duluth - a year-round community with food. Together, creating a higher quality of life for all of Earth's inhabitants.
  
  Information: 218-722-2155, communityearthfarm@hotmail.com

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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