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- From: Lucy Wilson <lucy.wilson AT gmail.com>
- To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org, John Rintoul <beecd AT icloud.com>, Cynthia Speed <katrina501 AT aol.com>, Chris Apple <chrisapple1231 AT gmail.com>, flyingbecky AT hotmail.com
- Subject: Re: [ocba] OCBA Pollinator Garden
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:28:52 -0400
Hi all,The OCBA pollinator garden is still looking for a few volunteers - but it also has volunteers to offer! If you are interested in expanding your own pollinator garden; please contact me about doing a bit of weeding and thinning in exchange for some spring transplants of bee balm, echinacea, etc.LucyHappy 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!
- Re: [ocba] OCBA Pollinator Garden, Lucy Wilson, 03/25/2016
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