Join us for the fifth hands-on workshop in this “Discover Hedgerows!” series with our ongoing educational partners, Thurston Conservation District, and our landowner demonstration-site partners, Broadfields Farm.

We’ll also have a special noontime presentation by WSU’s agroforestry expert Patrick Shults, discussing compatibility and benefits of combining livestock with reforestation, and how this ecological restoration planting project will support habitat for native wildlife, water resources protection, and provides agricultural benefits for a local Thurston County farm.

Since the launch of our “Hedgerows Toolkit” in 2023, we’ve partnered with local farmers, Thurston Conservation District, and many other regional and federal funders to implement various demonstration hedgerows combined with learning opportunities for community members, regardless of their interest in the power of hedgerows to solve a lot of big problems in a comparatively small space!

This project is a 1,500 foot-long planting strip that will use 2,200 native trees & shrubs to enhance livestock health, protect waterways, and provide months of blooms, fruits, and cover for wildlife of all sizes. We’ll intersperse hands-on learning with helping bring this immense new planting to fruition!

If you’d like to learn more about Hedgerows, feel free to navigate to our “Hedgerows Toolkit” which was launched in 2023, with funding from Thurston County.
This project is being funded by Thurston County, the Washington Conservation Commission, and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.