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 workshop.

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.

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. This is 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 over 2,500 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.

Activities will include: planting any remaining plants and mulching the hedgerow strip.

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.