Happy Spring!
We are looking for volunteers for the OCBA
pollinator garden. Please respond to me (lucy.wilson AT gmail.com)
if you would like to help.
The OCBA maintains
a pollinator garden at the Alexander Dickson House/Orange County
Visitors Center on East King Street in Hillsborough. It’s a lovely garden,
installed and dedicated in the spring of 2011. See more here: http://theocba.org/events/pollinator-garden-dedication/
To keep up with
regular garden maintenance, volunteers take on a month during which
s/he spends approximately an hour at the garden. Tasks include
weeding and deadheading, and later in the summer, staking things up and then
cutting them back. Volunteers also report back on any other garden needs,
such as replacing struggling or dead plants, water or mulch needed, etc.
We are setting up the same system again this
year, preferably with two volunteers per month. The two can either work
together or at different times. If regularly maintained, a
visit to weed, etc. should take approximately one hour. This can be done at any
time within the month, to fit the volunteer’s schedule.
Suggested items to
bring: garden gloves, drinking water, sun hat; hand rake/claw or
other cultivation tool of choice; scissors/clippers for dead-heading; and a bag
to collect weeded material in (Please do not leave weeds in the yard of the
Dickson House.)
Nearly all of the plants have labels, and most
of them are fully established after 5 years, so even if you aren't familiar
with what is where in the garden, you'll have no problems weeding.
Please sign up by replying to me, Lucy Wilson (lucy.wilson AT gmail.com). We are looking for volunteers for the months of March –
October.
Please let me know what months you are or are not available. I'll send out a schedule once we are filled up and a reminder when your month comes around.
Thank you!