Please Join Us for Some Autumn Gardening!

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!

Love Those Button Bushes!

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!

A Very Productive Weeding Day at Crowder Park!

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!

Pollinator Workday & Tour at the Holly Springs Food Cupboard

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