Events Calendar

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Upcoming Events

Forest Steward Friday
Nov
22

Forest Steward Friday

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our forest steward Heather and help her plant natives that were delivered to the top area along Admiral. Fern, Snowberry, Osoberry and other varieties. Should be a fun one!

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Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach
Nov
21

Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park and work along the beach at the very south end entrance closest to the ferry dock. There are some blackberry brambles and other invasives taking over the shoreline that will be great to clear up and open room for native plants.

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Spruced! / Spokane Street Park
Nov
20

Spruced! / Spokane Street Park

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.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
19

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, last week we kept clearing the little nook under the Admiral offramp from the bridge at 30th Ave SW and Spokane/Harbor Ave. and continue around the corner and keep pulling clematis and blackberry off the ramp wall.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
18

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, last week we kept clearing the little nook under the Admiral offramp from the bridge at 30th Ave SW and Spokane/Harbor Ave. and continue around the corner and keep pulling clematis and blackberry off the ramp wall.

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Forest Steward Friday
Nov
15

Forest Steward Friday

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our forest steward Heather and help her plant natives that were delivered to the top area along Admiral. Fern, Snowberry, Osoberry and other varieties. Should be a fun one!

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Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach
Nov
14

Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach

We’ll head down to Lincoln Park and work along the beach at the very south end entrance closest to the ferry dock. There are some blackberry brambles and other invasives taking over the shoreline that will be great to clear up and open room for native plants to reestablish and flourish.

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Spruced! / Spokane Street Park
Nov
13

Spruced! / Spokane Street Park

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.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
11

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, last week we started clearing the little nook under the Admiral offramp from the bridge at 30th Ave SW and Spokane/Harbor Ave. We’ll continue around the corner and keep pulling clematis and blackberry off the ramp wall.

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Spruced! / Me-Kwa-Mooks
Nov
8

Spruced! / Me-Kwa-Mooks

We’ll head back to Me-Kwa-Mooks this week and help Bonnie put in new plants in the northwest corner of the park where we first started to help her clear last Spring. This will be a fun opportunity to be on the restoration side of helping out this beautiful park.

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Spruced! / Spokane Street Park
Nov
6

Spruced! / Spokane Street Park

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 invasives and clearing trash.

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Spruced! / Lander Street End
Nov
5

Spruced! / Lander Street End

Last week we cleared a huge amount of clematis and ivy off the guard rail and tree behind it. This next trip will head further back into the woods and hillside to start ringing the trees and continue to open up the view of the ravine.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
4

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, there are still areas to groom along Manning between Admiral and Avalon, and there are also some overgrown lane dividers at the bridge approach if that’s an area you’d feel comfortable working in..

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Forest Steward Friday
Nov
1

Forest Steward Friday

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our Forest Steward Heather. We’ll continue working ground ivy, tree ringing and hauling out trash as we come across it.

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Spruced! / Spokane Street Park
Oct
30

Spruced! / Spokane Street Park

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 invasives and clearing trash.

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Spruced! / Lander Street End
Oct
29

Spruced! / Lander Street End

We’ll work on the street end at the intersection of Lander and Walnut streets on the northeast corner of Hiawatha Park. The street end is overgrown with ivy, clematis, blackberry and other invasives.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Oct
28

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, there are still areas to groom along Manning between Admiral and Avalon, and there are also some overgrown lane dividers at the bridge approach if that’s an area you’d feel comfortable working in..

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Spruced! / Chief Sealth XC Collab
Oct
26

Spruced! / Chief Sealth XC Collab

We'll be collaborating with the Chief Sealth's Cross Country team in Sprucing their campus and helping out with their team fundraising efforts. It would be great to help amplify their work and if anyone is interested in helping their fundraising you can Venmo to @mikaelfranzen and note "XC Fundraising". Thanks for your consideration!

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Spruced! / Lowman Beach
Oct
24

Spruced! / Lowman Beach

We’ll head back to Lowman Beach this week with Seattle Parks & Rec gardeners to address their areas of concern. Last week we finished clearing around the southern pump station so we’ll move to different areas of the park after spreading wood chips.

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Spruced! / Charles Richey Sr. Viewpoint
Oct
23

Spruced! / Charles Richey Sr. Viewpoint

We’ll head back to Charles Richey Sr. Viewpoint again this week and continue grooming where we left off last week. We have one last section to weed down behind the pump station and add more wood chips to before moving on. The more hands the quicker we'll get onto a new project :)

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Spruced! / SW Manning St.
Oct
21

Spruced! / SW Manning St.

We'll head back for our third week of Sprucing along SW Manning which runs between Admiral and Avalon . Last week we got the blackberries cut off the road, Jamie did a masterful job of cleaning ivy from the rockery and Molly cleaned up the eastern side of the street. This week we'll continue on the rockery and continue to clear dead wood out of the rocks.

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Spruced! / Nantes Park
Oct
19

Spruced! / Nantes Park

We'll join the Seattle-Nantes Sister City Association on Sprucing up Nantes Park on Saturday from 10am-2pm. Come for as long as you'd like. We'll be working with Seattle Parks & Rec on weeding and spreading wood chips in this little pocket park right along Admiral Way which celebrates our sister city of Nantes, France.

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Spruced! / Lowman Beach
Oct
17

Spruced! / Lowman Beach

We’ll head back to Lowman Beach this week with Seattle Parks & Rec gardeners to address their areas of concern. Last week we cleared some hedges around the southern pump station so we’ll pick up where we left off and keep grooming that area.

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Spruced! / California Ave.
Oct
15

Spruced! / California Ave.

We'll hop out and address some Sprucing needs between Hinds and Spokane Streets along California Ave. There are tree suckers, low hanging branches and two islands in the middle of California that are overgrown with weeds and mucked up with debris.

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Spruced! / SW Manning St.
Oct
14

Spruced! / SW Manning St.

We'll head back for our second week of Sprucing along SW Manning which runs between Admiral and Avalon . Last week we got more than half of the blackberries cut off the road. This week we'll finish that job and then follow with some ivy cutting off the rockery.

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Afternoon Spruce! / Schmitz Park Bridge
Oct
11

Afternoon Spruce! / Schmitz Park Bridge

We'll be heading back to Schmitz Park Bridge on Friday afternoon to pick up where we left off on Wednesday. The first stab cleaned up much of the east side of the street. We'll keep going clearing the corner that turns into the park and also Spruce the west side of the bridge.

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Past Events

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We’re good about keeping the opportunities flowing, but we’re also open to new ideas.

Have a hotspot you’d like to help tackle or an area we haven’t been to? Reach out with your ideas and we’ll see what we can do!

 

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