Freedom Park
September 28, 2010
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- MLK Work Day 2011 Eroded Hill Before
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- MLK Work Day 2011
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- MLK 2011 Leveling the Site
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- MLK 2011 Amending
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- Awesome work CDC!
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- MLK Work Day 2011 After
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- Big Thanks for an Outstanding MLK Work Day
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- Early Spring 2011 Jute Cloth with the Kosher Crew
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- Early Spring 2011 Ready for Planting
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- Early Spring 2011 Eroded Hill ready for Planting with Pollinator Flags
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- Small fast volunteer crew. Awesome gardeners.
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- Pandra’s planting demo
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- Love that shirt!
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- Younger Women’s Task Force hard at work.
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- After Spring 2011 Plug Planting – Right Side
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- Section B After plug planting – left side
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- Section B after plug planting – right side
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- After Spring 2011 Plug Planting- Left Side
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- 2011 Spring Blooms in Section B
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- Great Work Dirty Fingernails Club!
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- Pollinator Flags Flying
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- Beautiful Humming Bird Pollinator
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- Dirty Fingernail Club Pollinator Flags Artscape
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- 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Work Day
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- We Love John from Park Pride!
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- Happy Volunteer
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- Cleaning up the beds
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- Shovel Crew
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- We are all about teamwork!
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- Sarah is back at it.
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- Carol from the Freedom Park Improvement Comittee.
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- Clearing leaves
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- Cool, but perfect MLK morning
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- Jeff and John doing it smart.
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- Erosion contrl project is looking super healthy.
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- Bird’s Food Violet in bloom in January.
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- Looking great with fresh coat of compost.
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- Hard working Kosher Crew students!
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- Our Outstanding 2012 MLK Volunteers
EcoAddendum and the Freedom Park Conservancy are partnering to create native plant gardens in Freedom Park on the corner of North Ave. and Oakdale Rd. The entire phase one project (see above photo) is 7,147 sq ft. For the micro grant application, planting in sections B and D- a total of 1,737 sq ft, is proposed. Section B will be planted with 40 native perennials, and mix of 7 native shrubs and understory trees. Plants for section B include: Red Buckeye, Woodland Milkweed, Woodland Asters, Longleaf Woodoats, Christmas Ferns, Broad Beech Ferns to name a few species on the list of suggested plants. Section D will be planted with “mowable” native species suited to the eroded soil situation on the slope, including but not limited to Carolina Green and Gold and Bird’s Foot Violet.
Our Goals:
We would like to introduce EcoAddendum and Birds, Butterflies, and Bees Native Plant Project to the neighborhoods surrounding Freedom Park. We have been awarded a Park Pride micro grant for $1000.00, as this is a matching grant, we are seeking to work with the communities surrounding our project area. Once the project is underway we will be sending out information on volunteers events, workdays and educational programs. Not only will this project benefit the community around Freedom Park, it will also benefit the environment and wildlife.
