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🍂 October Oak Understory Tending at Martha Washington Park
Join us for a restoration work party at Martha Washington Park.
GSP is partnering with Queer the Land (queertheland.org) to support the ongoing stewardship of this oak understory garden as a space to build community and relationships with first food plants of the Coast Salish region. All experience levels welcome!
For this event we’ll work on…
1) Processing seeds — Feel free to bring baggies if you’d like to take some seeds for growing
2) Finishing cutting down the meadow patches — Our annual late-summer practice in place of traditional controlled burns that maintained oak-camas prairies across the northwest
3) Raking leaves — Preventing leaf litter from smothering our meadow patches by mulching the walking paths instead
Please note these activities may involve bending and kneeling. There’s seating on-site, but the garden isn’t wheelchair-accessible.
