[Green] Fwd: Seed Sowing--Middle Island: Monday 10AM-Noon; Tuesday 1-3PM; Wednesday 3PM-5PM

[Rebecca Phillips]

Thanks, Vic. BTW, I did order blanket flower for the seed giveaway. (I used to have a mind. . . .)

Rebecca

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero
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All,

I'm sending this out for your use as a starting place for your own correspondence. I sent the attached document to the Washington county commissioners.

Cheers,

Vic
When the Earth, its products, its creatures become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humility and reverence.   - William O. Douglas


On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:57 PM Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org<mailto:green at fuusm.org>> wrote:
Just making sure you all received this. —dawn

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From: Mark Krivchenia <mark.krivchenia at gmail.com<mailto:mark.krivchenia at gmail.com>>
Date: March 19, 2023 at 9:17:47 AM EDT
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Subject: Seed Sowing--Middle Island: Monday 10AM-Noon; Tuesday 1-3PM; Wednesday 3PM-5PM


Dear Friends of the Ohio River Islands,

We are sowing native seeds on Middle Island along the entrance road we cleared of invasive brush over the past year.  These areas will get new sunlight and we want native plants to take advantage of this.

We made great progress last week, but we need to get the rest of this seed into the ground ASAP.  So three seed-sowing workdays this week:

Monday:  10AM-Noon
Tuesday:  1-3PM
Wednesday:  3PM-5PM

This is easy, fun work.  We will rake areas where we have cleared to bare soil, sow seeds and then lightly rake it again.  Hopefully nature will do the rest.  Rain is forecast for later in the week to water the plantings!

This seed mix is a hardy woodland edge seed mix of native grasses and flowering plants (forbs) that hopefully can gain a toehold in the "edge" ecosystem.

Contact me if you have any questions.  Bring a rake if you have one (sturdy rake--not a leaf rake).

Mark K.  224.545.1604

Mark Krivchenia
Broughton Nature Preserve, Steward
Friends of the Ohio River Islands, Board Member
Society of Ecological Restoration, Midwest Great Lakes Chapter, Board Member

"All flourishing is mutual." (Robin Kimmerer from "Braiding Sweetgrass")

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