Check out our story in the St Johns Review Newspaper!   Secret woodland important to St. Johns heritage, Trail and Baltimore Woods Corridor By Barbara Quinn When I first moved to the St. Johns neighborhood nearly 30 years ago, it was like a territory that time forgot. Not only in the sense that there was a vintage Sprouse Reitz, 88-cent store, drug stores, even one with a working soda fountain, all of which were deja vu, but also because there were hidden pockets of wilderness scattered in unexpected places. For instance, there was a field full of wild lupine on Columbia Boulevard not far from Pier Park blanketing acres between…

Friends of Baltimore Woods Native Plant Sale a Success – With a little Help from Our Friends By Caroline Skinner   OK, it was a lot more than a little help from our friends that got us through another FoBW native plant sale so smoothly on March 31st. A core group of us, including co-chairs Kelly Derr and Susan Gere, plus Mark Hill and me, spent many evenings during recent months meeting around Mark’s dining room table nailing down the event details. Thanks to a nifty “how to hold a plant sale” document done by Sylvia Allen, we seemed to hit on all the key points as our sale date…

Spring 2018 Newsletter Our Spring 2018 Newsletter is here! Catch up on our events & progress, learn more about our partners, and the plants & trees in the Baltimore Woods, and as a special treat for this edition–a poem written by our very own Caroline Skinner! Read the full newsletter here, or check your inbox if you’re on our newsletter list. We send this newsletter out quarterly, and always welcome submissions from the community. Please share with us your volunteer experiences, photographs from walks, observations about the flora and fauna, interesting information, and poetry! Contact us here.  Our next Newsletter will be out in the summer. Contents: FoBW Annual Native…

Our Winter 2017 Newsletter is Here! Welcome to the Winter 2017 edition of the Friends of Baltimore Woods e-newsletter. It’s time again to share news of our ongoing work to bring a native oak woodland to the riverbank in St. Johns. We invite your feedback and participation. Contents: Urban Weeds Class Helps Educate Neighbors SOLVE and Friends of Baltimore Woods — An Ongoing Partnership SOLVE Beach and Riverside Cleanup PBS Engineering & Environmental Takes on Peavine — and Wins! Tough and Tenacious Native Plant Seed Mix Yes We Have No Ivy Day A Note from the No Ivy League The Trail of Discovery in Portland’s Harbor Least Wanted Invasive Species…

Our Fall Newsletter is Here!   Welcome to the Fall 2017 edition of the Friends of Baltimore Woods e-newsletter. It’s time again to share news of our ongoing work to bring a native oak woodland to the riverbank in St. Johns. We invite your feedback and participation. Don’t forget to register for our Urban Weeds Workshop on September 16th! Only 9 seats left as of this evening. Register here. What’s your best thing? We are still looking to fill some important volunteer roles, and build our active members. Whatever you’re good at, however much or little time you have to give, we can put your particular interests and skills to…