We’ll be Sprucing along the Duwamish Trail South Park Connector to clear leaves and foliage growing out onto the trail. We’ll be cutting back brambles, scraping the trail and limbing low hanging branches.

Genesee Hill Elementary School reached out about a Block Drop cleanup at Lincoln Park on MLK Jr. Day. We’ll set up for the kids on the south parking lot, closest to the ferry dock, and anyone is welcome to join.

While the kids work on trash in the park we’ll plan on continuing the beach Sprucing work that we’ve been doing at the bottom of the road closest to the ferry.

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park and work along the beach at the very south end entrance closest to the ferry dock. We’ll continue on the blackberry brambles and other invasives taking over the shoreline to open up the view and room for native plants.

We’ll head back to help Mary at the Diagonal Ave Park and Shoreline Habitat which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a mile or so. It’s a cool park with a little cove for litter pickup and a little pocket park that we can Spruce and tidy up.

We’ve been helping Jeremy with a cleanup along the Duwamish Trail and look to do another section this week, this time we’ll start down under the First Avenue Bridge off of Highland Park Way which will more or less complete the West Seattle section of the trail all the way to the WS Bridge.

A neighbor reached out about the hillside behind the 35th & Avalon bus stop which is trashed again, we'll do an impromptu cleanup tomorrow at 9am for anyone who wants to hop out for a quick one. Maybe some sprucing work too taking out ivy and brambles on the hill that catch all the trash and make it hard to collect.

We’ll be helping the neighborhood group Schmitz Park Creek Restore, pull ivy, holly and blackberry so that native plants and animals, including people, can flourish. This will be the first of many Sprucing events in the coming years helping the group to restore the park and creek.

We’ll head back to the Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and play it by ear as far as where we’ll go. If it rains all week we may stay up on the top level, otherwise we can venture down to the bottom of the trail and keep ringing trees and working on ground ivy.

We’ll head back to Emma Schmitz Overlook this week and potentially plant the blackberry cleared hillside if Tim’s able to find suitable plants. Otherwise we can continue pulling ivy and other invasives.

We’ll head back to help Mary at the Diagonal Ave Park and Shoreline Habitat which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a mile or so. It’s a cool park with a little cove for litter pickup and a little pocket park that we can Spruce and tidy up.

We’ll be Sprucing along the Duwamish Trail South Park Connector to clear leaves and foliage growing out onto the trail. We’ll be cutting back brambles, scraping the trail and limbing low hanging branches.

Conrad reached out about a cleanup of Rotary Viewpoint and the neighborhood around the golf course and the triangular blocks between Alaska St., Fauntleroy and 35th, it's an oft neglected no-man’s land that typically needs help. We’ll meet at the viewpoint and can spread out in all directions within those streets.

We’ll head to Emma Schmitz Overlook to help Molly with her passion project of removing blackberries from the viewpoint. She's made spectacular progress since our initial cleanup about a year ago. Choose to walk the neighborhood and pickup trash or engage in any of the Sprucing activities of blackberry, ivy and weed removal.

We received a special cleanup request from the Jewish Community at West Seattle Torah Learning Center for a morning clean along Alki. We’ll be set up at the Bathhouse / Statue of Liberty so come out and join your neighbors for a community cleanup. The WS TLC event will be from 10am to noon, but we’ll leave the station up all day.

This week’s King Tides have floated lots of styrofoam beads up onto higher area of the beach, sidewalks and even into the street. We’ll use this timely opportunity to try and scoop up what we can.

Hi all, Jill is organizing our second Winter Solstice dinner to celebrate all the great work we've collectively done together, and this year we'll head back to La Chingona Taqueria on Avalon by the WS Bridge to celebrate our work in 2024!

We'll head back to the Cottage Grove Recovery Garden to help Susanna, the garden’s steward, Spruce up the garden and the surrounding neighborhood. The past month we’ve have helped weed and then plant natives into the beds. We’ll focus on wrapping up the invasive removal and mulching this week.

We’ll help Mary with the sbəq̓ʷaʔ (sbaqwah) Diagonal Ave Park and Shoreline Habitat which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a mile or so. It’s a cool park with a little cove for litter pickup and a little pocket park that we can Spruce and tidy up.

We've cleaned up at Marginal Place multiple times over the past several years due to the high traffic from illegal dumping and wire stripping. The cleanup will be in the cul-de-sac, under the WS Bridge and along the bike path and surrounding areas.

We’re heading back to the trailhead along Highland Park Way where we did the big tire and illegal dumping cleanup over the Summer. We can do a general cleanup of the trailhead and get what appears to be abandoned camps.

We’ll head back to Me-Kwa-Mooks this week and help Bonnie put in new plants in the upper area of the park and work on more ivy removal. This will be a fun opportunity to be on the restoration side of helping out this beautiful park.

Hi all, Matt is a group member who reached out about helping with some cleanups he's been doing with friends in South Lake Union. It's an interesting area that has lots of tech businesses, new apartment & condos, p-patches, parks, right alongside older, run-down buildings and lots of unhoused folks.

We'll head back to the Cottage Grove Recovery Garden to help Susanna, the garden’s steward, Spruce up the garden and the surrounding neighborhood.

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

We've cleaned up at Marginal Place multiple times over the past several years due to the high traffic from illegal dumping and wire stripping. The cleanup will be in the cul-de-sac, under the WS Bridge and along the bike path and surrounding areas.

We'll supply REI's Run Club with gear for a Plogging (Jogging + Trash Picking) event around Lake Union starting at 10am by the pond behind the Center for Wooden Boats. Join us for a 5k or 10k course around the lake. Walkers also welcome!

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our forest steward Heather and work on removing ivy and other invasives. Should be a fun one!

We'll head back to the Cottage Grove Recovery Garden to help Susanna, the garden’s steward, Spruce up the garden and the surrounding neighborhood. We’ll be able to spread mulch and so a big planting session Thursday.

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

We'll head back to the Cottage Grove Recovery Garden to help Susanna, the garden’s steward, Spruce up the garden and the surrounding neighborhood.