Please join us at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 5, 2023 as we spruce up the Bass Lake Park pollinator garden! We will be weeding, cutting back dead growth, spreading seeds and adding some pollinator plants! The Park is located at 900 Bass Lake Road but the pollinator garden is located next to the picnic … More Let’s Have Some Fun at Bass Lake Park!
SWC partnered with Simple Gifts Community Garden at their new location in Apex on Sunday, Oct. 1, to hold a joint native plant sale and organic community garden tour. The weather was beautiful, and many people turned out to find their favorite plants and check out the new garden site, which just relocated this year. … More SWC Native Plant Sale a Success!
Love native plants? So do we! Join us at Simple Gifts Community Garden for a native plant sale. We’ll have 4-5 native plant species available in 4 inch pots. Proceeds will go to the chapter’s efforts to conserve and restore wildlife habitat. This is also a great opportunity to tour Simple Gifts Community Garden and … More Native Plant Sale!
Please join us at Crowder County Park (4709 Ten-Ten Road, Apex, NC) on October 20, 2023 for some pre-winter pollinator garden maintenance! We will do some weeding, dead-heading and other maintenance to prepare the park’s pollinator gardens for spring. We will meet from 9 a.m. to noon at the park’s Visitor Center. Please bring water … More Please Join Us for Some Autumn Gardening!
In 2021 the South Wake Conservationists and North Carolina Wildlife Federation planted Button Bushes at the North Carolina Art Park and Umstead State Park. They were planted in moist locations, a necessity if the bushes (actually a shrub) were to produce blooms. The blooms are balls of white flowers resembling pincushions. Ducks and other water … More Love Those Button Bushes!
On July 17, 2023 the South Wake Conservationists conducted a very productive weeding day at Crowder County Park! One of the park’s beautiful pollinator gardens was enhanced through the removal of a substantial quantity of weeds. Many of the garden’s plants that were added last autumn are doing quite well and will now do even … More A Very Productive Weeding Day at Crowder Park!
Come put your hands in the dirt on a Wednesday morning (before it gets hot!), help out our pollinator friends, and end with a private tour of the really cool and innovative sustainable gardens at the Holly Springs Food Cupboard! Activities will include watering, weeding, and composting to give the pollinator gardens a boost for … More Pollinator Workday & Tour at the Holly Springs Food Cupboard
The pollinator plants at Crowder County Park are doing well! Problem is, so are the weeds! Let’s address that problem on Monday, July 17 at 9:00 a.m.! We will meet at the park office and dispose of the weeds in the garden adjacent to the office. We will conclude at 11 a.m. Please bring gloves … More Let’s Do Some Morning Weeding!
South Wake Conservationists and NCWF, partnering with Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary, hosted sixteen volunteers from Xylem/Sensus on April 13 for a native plants workday at the park. This was part of a broader regional sustainability event sponsored by EarthShare NC, which NCWF participates in each year. A large hillside facing the road at … More A New Native Plants Hillside at Hemlock Bluffs
Its time to give the Lincoln Heights Elementary School pollinator garden a good weeding! In view of the recent rain, there will be plenty to do! Let’s meet at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. We will conclude at 11 a.m. The school is located at 307 Bridge St. in Fuquay-Varina. … More Let’s Weed the Lincoln Heights Pollinator Garden!
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