Stretch Our Parks: Help us PLANT native plants and make deer cages

Come help work on this exciting new habitat restoration project!

ARMN, the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance, and the Tree Stewards of Arlington and Alexandria have been collaborating with Dominion Hills Area Recreation Association (DHARA) via NVBA's Stretch Our Parks initiative (https://www.nvbirdalliance.org/stretch-our-parks) to restore the natural habitat on DHARA property. For over a year, we've been pulling out invasive plants on this particular property and we began some planting last winter.

To bolster our planting effort, Earth Sangha granted us five woodies and 25 herbaceous plants this year. [They also gave us plants to help us on our other sites in the corridor].

Please come help us get the valuable Earth Sangha donation native plants into the ground!

There are three basic jobs (building cages, digging holes, planting plants) that need to happen that morning and we're starting a bit earlier than normal (9am) to give us a leg up on finishing by noon.

You can park on the far left side of the DHARA (6000 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, 20005) parking lot (near Ashlawn Elementary School). We will gather there, sign in, go over a few safety issues, and then move to the worksite down the stairs and across the stream. Please remember this is private property, and the owners are being kind enough to let us do "our restoration thing" on it.

Wear appropriate clothes (close-toed shoes and long pants) and bring your own water bottle. We will have some gloves and tools for you to use, but feel free to bring your own.

Pls sign up on Sign Up Genius so Joan expects you! The 11/23 slot - https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040A4BA9A92CA31-powhatan1#/