by Nicole Marcotte | Nov 7, 2017 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest
This year we broke some Green Seattle Day records and it’s all thanks to you, our volunteers! Despite being the coldest November 4th on record since 1973, we still had over 1,200 volunteers come out to 22 parks for our 12th annual Green Seattle Day celebration!...
by Andrea Mojzak | Oct 13, 2017 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest
Trees are the legacy of Green Seattle Day My first Green Seattle Day was 2008. I was a 25-year-old AmeriCorps volunteer with the Cascade Land Conservancy and it was my term’s opus to coordinate this volunteer event at Seward Park. 9 years later I can go back...
by Loren McElvain | Aug 16, 2017 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest, Guest Posts, Restoration Resources
Each year Green Seattle Partnership staff and volunteers are working hard to restore forested parklands across the city. We are always on the lookout for better ways to get the work done. It could be a new tool, a new way to deal with weed debris, or remove a...
by Nicole Marcotte | May 16, 2017 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest, Restoration Resources
Soil enhancement for increasing conifer growth and overall diversity of under-story plants. Hugelkultur, have you heard of it? It’s like active composting while growing plants. This approach is believed to have originated in Europe as a technique for growing...
by Michael Yadrick | Dec 10, 2016 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest
The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is seeking consultants to provide the volunteer coordination and leadership for the Green Seattle Partnership programs in 2017, with the possibility of an extension for 2018. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is...
by Michael Yadrick | Dec 8, 2016 | At Home Resources
“Preserving the Duwamish Cultural Landscape” is a free public outreach event of the Duwamish Longhouse Urban Reforestation Project sponsored by a King Conservation District grant. Park’s Plant Ecologists, Lisa Ciecko and Michael Yadrick, will provide...
