Planting Day at 3 Bridges Park: A photo essay

The Urban Ecology Center hosted a planting day on Saturday as a part of its efforts to flesh out the still largely bare 24-acre landscape of 3 Bridges Park. A crew of volunteers including a number of young girl scouts eagerly pulled invasive weeds as well as planting new seedlings. Here is a photo essay of the activities and participants.

Preparations underway for the community gardens (above and below)

Volunteers arriving at the park

A group effort

Michael, a UEC staffer, helps Henry with a potted seedling.

Invasive thistle

Katie & Kaylin

Willie

Terry

Patrick, a UEC staffer, helps Jacob with the shovel.

Photo op

Pete with Chayton

Melissa, Hank Aaron State Trail manager

Jeff, UEC land steward, carries a flat of seedlings past a railroad maintenance crew at work.

A 3 Bridges Park halleluia!

This post is one in a series that relates to my Menomonee Valley Artist in Residency. For more information about the residency and links to previous posts and photographs, go to MV AiR.

Wauwatosa produces another book about loving nature!

Fellow Wauwatosan, Amy Lou Jenkins, has written a new book entitled Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open Air Parenting about how to raise your children to enjoy nature. What a great idea!
She has a website that will tell you more about it.

She is having two back to back book launching events this week:

Monday, May 24, at 7 pm at the Urban Ecology Center - could there be a better place for it?!! Click here for directions.

Tuesday, May 25, at 6:30 at the Wauwatosa Public Library. Click here for directions.