A group friend asked if we’d come and clean up along Highland Park Way which just got mowed this past week, and in turn shredded everything that was in it. A bunch of junk to pick up.

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and continue helping her dive into ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there this past year with several large-scale ivy pulling events. This week we’ll help connect areas we were working on and get roots off the ground.

So, our plans with Parks changed this week and I guess the MLK Park project got paused, we’ll shift back to Seacrest Park again and pick up where we left off last week. We’ll be working the area between Marination and Salty’s again on various park needs.

We'll join Mary back down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. Our work last year has made this swing through much easier. We’ll pick up garbage and clear overgrowth off the path.

Join us on Saturday, June 7 in the Mt. Baker neighborhood! We’ll meet at the Mt. Baker Light Rail Station and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and continue with the perimeter trail around some Japanese Knotweed that the city will come and spray in the coming months. This will be down at the lower end of the Admiral stretch where we’ve worked the last several times in the Greenspace.

After reaching our Colman Beach blackberry goal last week, we’ll shift over to a one-off cleanup at Seacrest Park this week. We’ll likely be working the area between Marination and Salty’s on various park needs.

We'll join Mary back down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. Our work last year has made this swing through much easier. We’ll pick up garbage and clear overgrowth off the path.

We’ve been clearing blackberries off the beach wall between Colman Pool north towards Lowman Beach for the past several months and we’re at the end of the line. Mike took the tops off all the brambles over the weekend near the Lowman end of the beach path so we’ll literally be working on pulling the last of the remaining canes and root balls along the beach!

This will be kind of a hodge hodge of projects. The tire pit will be the easy initial stab and then we can look at the cleared camp and other abandoned camps just inside the greenbelt.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and help make a perimeter around some Japanese Knotweed that the city will come and spray in the coming months. This will be down at the lower end of the Admiral stretch where we’ve worked the last several times in the Greenspace.

We’ve been clearing blackberries off the beach wall between Colman Pool north towards Lowman Beach. We’re over half way done and the beach is looking amazing. This will be our 6th such cleanup and we should be able to wrap up our objective this week.

We'll join Mary back down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. We’ll pick up garbage and clear overgrowth off the path.

Mary was reached out to by a Burien neighbor who is dealing with a cancer diagnosis and is needing to sell her home. She’s looking for help with some yard work to get the home ready to market. We’ll head over Tuesday morning, and plan to meet at the house at 10am and see how we can help her.

We’ll head to Emma Schmitz Overlook on Memorial Day and take advantage of the favorable low tides to remove the big tractor tire off the beach that’s been there for many years.

I recently onboarded as a Forest Steward in Schmitz Park where we cleared a camp in January, and this will be my first organized effort to scout and start removing invasives there. It’s a really easy walk in from the bridge so park on either side and we’ll head in off Stevens St.

We’ve been clearing blackberries off the beach wall between Colman Pool north towards Lowman Beach. We’re over half way done and the beach is looking amazing. This will be our 5th such cleanup and will give us a good idea of what will be needed to get the project completed.

We’ll head back to Weather Watch Park with Mary this week and give it a Springtime Spruce. We removed a bulk of the overgrowth last year so will see what has come back and needs taming.

Join us for a special after school Sprucing event at Lafayette Elementary, requested by Lafayette’s PTA. The kids will stay after school, joined by family, and all community members are welcomed to come out and give this neighborhood gem some love as well.

We’re helping Jack, a local Eagle Scout clear blackberries off the beach wall between Colman Pool north towards Lowman Beach. This will be our fourth such cleanup and we’ve made a huge dent, likely about halfway down the beach. The beach that has been cleared is looking pretty fantastic.

We'll drop back in along the bike path and finish Sprucing up the dense corner that was solid blackberry and low hanging branches a few weeks back, this is right on the south corner of the new storage facility (Secure Space).

We'll join Mary back down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year and worked on Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. We’ll pick up garbage and clear overgrowth off the path.

Stu from Alki Bike & Board reached out for a cleanup of Marginal Place and the bike path as part of Bike Everywhere Month. We’ve cleaned up Marginal Place multiple times over the past several years due to the high traffic from illegal dumping and wire stripping, you never really know what you’re going to get or see, but it always needs help.

Group member Brian also happens to be a Scout leader, and one of his Scouts, Jack, is taking on a restoration project for his Eagle Scout project. His goal is to remove the blackberry and other invasives on the beach side of the path between Coleman pool, north to where the path bends towards Lowman Beach.

On Wednesday we'll step into the woods along Admiral Way and traverse down the trail system through the Big Leaf Maples and talk about the English Ivy monoculture we're trying to turn around—check out native plants, listen to the birds and stop at the Cathedral for awhile and forest bathe before continuing our thru hike down through the Greenspace, eventually coming down onto Harbor Avenue under the Eagles Nest.

We were reached out to by DNDA (Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association) for a collaborative cleanup along Longfellow Creek—specifically around the area of 29th Ave SW and SW Brandon Street.

Join us for Seattle Adopt a Street’s 2025 All Hands Neighborhood Cleanup Series! We’re showing love to 6 Seattle neighborhoods with 10 community cleanups between March and November—focusing on removing litter and beautifying our streets.

We’re helping a local Eagle Scout clear blackberries off the beach wall between Coleman Pool north towards Lowman Beach. This will be the second such cleanup and will give us a good idea of the pace we’ll need to hit the area between now and June when the project needs to be completed.

Hi all, we’ll be helping support a collaborative cleanup with One Workplace along Alki Beach this week. Come join us as we help Spruce up the best beach in town! On top of trash pick up we'll also be working on weeding and clearing garden beds as well.

We'll drop back in along the bike path and work on opening up one of the last remaining hidey holes that still has dense blackberry and low hanging branches along this stretch of the trail. This is right on the south corner of the new storage facility (Secure Space).