by Nicole Marcotte | Mar 16, 2018 | Find Your Forest, Restoration Resources
It’s official: Spring is here! This means it’s time to close the door on our annual planting season, and to celebrate our season’s accomplishments. Each year, we officially kick-off the planting season with our Green Seattle Day celebrations in...
by Nicole Marcotte | Dec 2, 2017 | Find Your Forest, Restoration Resources
The plants that the Green Seattle Partnership(GSP) plants are very young, babies really, and we need to do everything we can to set them up to be able to grow and thrive. These helpful hints can be used for plants and trees in your yard as well as forest restoration...
by Loren McElvain | Aug 16, 2017 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest, Guest Posts, Restoration Resources
Each year Green Seattle Partnership staff and volunteers are working hard to restore forested parklands across the city. We are always on the lookout for better ways to get the work done. It could be a new tool, a new way to deal with weed debris, or remove a...
by Elizabeth Housley | Jul 13, 2017 | Restoration Resources
At its bleeding heart, the Green Seattle Partnership depends on the hard work of nearly 200 volunteer Forest Stewards who manage a section of a public natural area. Stewards remove invasive vegetation, manage community volunteers and install Pacific Northwest native...
by Nicole Marcotte | May 16, 2017 | At Home Resources, Find Your Forest, Restoration Resources
Soil enhancement for increasing conifer growth and overall diversity of under-story plants. Hugelkultur, have you heard of it? It’s like active composting while growing plants. This approach is believed to have originated in Europe as a technique for growing...
by Nicole Marcotte | Apr 25, 2017 | Restoration Resources
It’s Native Plant Appreciation Week, which means it’s time to acknowledge the trees, shrubs, and groundcovers that make our native landscapes in the Pacific Northwest so unique. In celebration of Native Plant Appreciation Week, we wanted to share a...
