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The Earth Sangha’s Native Forest Gardeners network is devoted to conserving and restoring the native plant communities of the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. For a one-page description of the network click here: NFG Overview [PDF, 156KB]. The network runs four programs: Our twice-a-year Forest Gardening Events are one-day planting efforts designed to install substantial volumes of our nursery stock in local areas of major ecological significance. At our first such event, in April 2004, we planted 1,000 of our northern red oak saplings at Riverbend Park, on the Virginia shore of the Potomac. To see some photos of that event, click here. Our Backlick Run Restoration program focuses on Wilburdale Park, in Annandale, Virginia. This 14-acre tract of playing field and forest encloses part of Backlick Run’s headwaters. We’ve been working in the Park since 2002, surveying the vegetation, controlling invasive alien plants and restoring native plants. Our work on the stream itself will begin in late 2004. (Backlick Run Photo Archive to come.) Our Native Arboretum project, begun in April 2004, is gradually transforming the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in McLean, Virginia, into an extensive native plant collection, organized to form a living field guide. We will soon launch a Native Arboretum website, at NativeArboretum.org. You can help! Our projects are almost entirely volunteer efforts, and our volunteers have a pretty good time. If you can spare a few hours a week, if you like being outside, if you enjoy picnics, and being around people who don’t take themselves too seriously, why not give forest gardening a try? Botanical knowledge is welcome but not necessary; we’ll show you how to work with the plants. Or if you haven’t got time to volunteer, please consider making a donation. Click here to invest in our community forests! Home |
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