Join us for an evening helping maintain a hedgerow at Broadfields Farm near Littlerock. Come for camaraderie and stay for the learning!

Spend a few hours maintaining the vegetation along the trails while appreciating the diversity in this wonderful example of a South Salish lowland forest and riparian ecosystem.

Join us for an evening helping maintain a hedgerow at Broadfields Farm near Littlerock. Come for camaraderie and stay for the learning!

Join us for an evening helping maintain a hedgerow at Broadfields Farm near Littlerock. Come for camaraderie and stay for the learning!

Spend a few hours maintaining the vegetation along the trails while appreciating the diversity in this wonderful example of a South Salish lowland forest and riparian ecosystem.

Join us in exploring the amazing flora of a floristically diverse peatland within Grays Harbor County. Our team of eco-instructors will support small learning groups, ensuring that everyone receives instruction and has plenty of time to photograph the amazing flora (including carnivorous plants!) in this unique ecosystem.

Join our eco-educators in an informal botanical walk through a South Salish lowland forest and riparian ecosystem. Our eco-educators will share how to identify and learn about a variety of native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants as we enjoy a lovely evening botanizing together. 

Come discuss with the farm’s owners, our Thurston Conservation District colleagues, and the original hedgerow designers from our team to see this beautiful hedgerow and learn about the successes & challenges of this project.

Please join us on the evening of Wednesday, June 10th, at the Rose Garden in Squaxin Park for our Volunteer & Donor Recognition Gathering, celebrating our 32nd Anniversary.

We’ll have a community potluck supper, recognize volunteers, partners, and donors. Come for the camaraderie, stay for the all-you-can-eat Olympic Mountain gourmet ice cream, sorbet, & non-dairy ice cream buffet!

Spend a few hours maintaining the vegetation along the trails while appreciating the diversity in this wonderful example of a South Salish lowland forest and riparian ecosystem.

Come discuss with the farm’s owners, our Thurston Conservation District colleagues, and the original hedgerow designers from our team to see this beautiful hedgerow and learn about the successes & challenges of this project.

Join us in the morning in maintaining a hedgerow at Helsing Junction Farms in Rochester. Come for camaraderie and stay for the learning!

Join us for an evening helping maintain a hedgerow at Helsing Junction Farms in Rochester. Come for camaraderie and stay for the learning!

Join our eco-instructors in exploring a section of South Salish Prairie & associated Garry Oak woodland to identify the many native perennial and annual flowers, grasses, trees, and shrubs that call this ecosystem home. Spring on our local prairies is spectacular, with an ever-changing bloom cycle.

Join our eco-educators in an informal botanical walk through a South Salish lowland forest and riparian ecosystem. Our eco-educators will share how to identify and learn about a variety of native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants as we enjoy a lovely evening botanizing together. 

Spend a few hours maintaining the vegetation along the trails while appreciating the diversity in this wonderful example of a South Salish lowland forest and riparian ecosystem.

Come learn and volunteer at an ecological restoration project that supports native wildlife habitat, protects water resources, and provides agricultural benefits for a Thurston County farm. This is also an opportunity to learn more about hedgerows and their positive roles on any site. 

During our salvages, volunteers save small native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants from local areas scheduled for clearing. NPS Salvages are a great way to practice plant identification, meet fellow plant nerds, and salvage plants for your own naturescaping and revegetation projects.

During our salvages, volunteers save small native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants from local areas scheduled for clearing. NPS Salvages are a great way to practice plant identification, meet fellow plant nerds, and salvage plants for your own naturescaping and revegetation projects.

During our salvages, volunteers save small native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants from local areas scheduled for clearing. NPS Salvages are a great way to practice plant identification, meet fellow plant nerds, and salvage plants for your own naturescaping and revegetation projects.

During our salvages, volunteers save small native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants from local areas scheduled for clearing. NPS Salvages are a great way to practice plant identification, meet fellow plant nerds, and salvage plants for your own naturescaping and revegetation projects.

This walking workshop is a fan favorite! Each year, our Winter Twig ID class has been overflowing with people eager to learn new ways to enjoy our natural world. We invite you to join us and discover the appreciation and delight that learning this unusual skill brings to your winter outings!

Schedule: choose either a morning or afternoon session. You can expect to learn how to identify 20-25 plants in their winter twig form over the course of 2.5 to 3 hours and receive a “cheat sheet” with our top tips for identifying these species on your own.

Join us as we support a large hedgerows ecological restoration project on a local farm. We will focus on laying weed-blocking cardboard and woodchip mulch around the native shrubs and trees to enhance their long-term growth by conserving water, preventing weeds, and improving soil health.

We invite you to join us on Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service as we support a large hedgerows ecological restoration project on a local farm. We will focus on laying weed-blocking cardboard and woodchip mulch around the native shrubs and trees to enhance their long-term growth by conserving water, preventing weeds, and improving soil health.

This is an all-day event, but you can choose the shift option that works best for your schedule, and/or come and go as you please.

Join us and our project partners, Thurston Conservation District, as we sheet mulch our largest ecological restoration hedgerows project to date! We will use both weed-blocking cardboard and woodchip mulch around the recently planted native shrubs and trees to enhance their long-term growth by conserving water, preventing weeds, and improving soil health.

This is an all-day event, but you can choose the shift option that works best for your schedule, and/or come and go as you please.

After over 25 years at our west Olympia location, our nursery is moving. This move is a huge undertaking for our foundation, and we will need all the help we can get!

On Sunday, November 9, we will host our second of two moving events, and we'll focus on moving infrastructure & supplies, while also continuing with moving native plants. There will be a variety of tasks available for people of all abilities.

Join us for our third day of planting our largest hedgerow project to date! This event is a follow-up to the workshop that we hosted on Saturday, October 25th. We will plant any remaining plants then focus on mulching the hedgerow to help with weed control.

Participate to both learn and volunteer on an ecological restoration planting project that supports habitat for native wildlife, water resources protection, and provides agricultural benefits for a local Thurston County farm.

After over 25 years at our west Olympia location, our nursery is moving. This move is a huge undertaking for our foundation, and we will need all the help we can get!

On Saturday, November 1, we will host our first of two moving events, and we will focus on transporting the plants to their new home. There will be a variety of tasks available for people of all abilities.

Join us for our second day of planting and mulching of our largest hedgerow project to date! This event is a follow-up to the workshop that we hosted on Saturday, October 25th. We will plant any remaining plants then focus on mulching the hedgerow to help with weed control.

Participate to both learn and volunteer on an ecological restoration planting project that supports habitat for native wildlife, water resources protection, and provides agricultural benefits for a local Thurston County farm.