March 13th Work Party with SOLVE

The Old Oak Tree site, below Edison Street on N Alta, is really starting to look good from a restoration standpoint. We’ve already worked there for several years, first taking out lots of trash and invasive locust trees, as well as blackberry and English Ivy. More recently, we’ve planted an assortment of native shrubs; many of them are doing well, including Osoberry and flowering red currant. We showed the site more love at our work party on March 13.

While we were sad to see the site’s namesake, the old oak tree, come down in a storm this winter, sections of it’s enormous trunk remain on site, along with an informative sign to explain why we want it to remain there, so the woody debris can help nourish the soil. At the work party, Barb Quinn noticed that some of the common camas we planted there years ago is still alive and growing on the south side of the downed tree trunk. Barb weeded the area well and added more. Nothing goes together better then camas and our native oak trees.

We are grateful to our event partner SOLVE and to all who came out to help. FoBW continues to offer volunteer work parties on the second Saturday of the month through June. Check our web site to confirm location.