EVENTS

Demonstration Parking Strip Native Plant Garden

Saturday, March 21, 9 AM

2255 Minor Ave E.

How can we fit more native plants into our urban environment? Utilize our parking strips!

The ubiquitous sod or beauty bark parking strip can instead be a small park! To demonstrate we're turning a town home parking strip into a garden featuring native plants with blooms and fruits and a variety of colors and textures. We've picked native plants that can handle urban stresses like dogs and a plan that allows people parking to exit curb side and reach the sidewalk.

Come help your neighbors plant this on March 21! We'll supply the tools, just wear work clothes and gloves. Stop by afterwards to see the garden as it fills and grows!

Shoreline Cleanup

Saturday, April 4, 9 AM - Noon

Fairview Ave E. and E. Garfield St.

Remove garbage and invasives from our sensitive shoreline

Each year your neighbor, Harmon Rogers, working with the Eastlake Community Council, organizes a much needed shoreline cleanup. We'll pull invasive plants like English Ivy that's strangling trees and cleanup litter to keep it from entering the environment and Lake Union. The Seattle Dept. of Transportation will provide a tool truck so just wear work clothes and bring some work gloves if you have them. This is a great event if you need volunteer hours for school or work.

Eastlake Native Plant Sale

Saturday, April 11, 10 AM - 4 PM

The Blue Ribbon/Chinook Marina parking lot off Fairview Ave E.

When the weather warms, hearts turn to gardens

Our first native plant sale last fall proved wildly popular, selling out within hours. This time, native plant specialist GoNatives! will be bringing more plants and a wider selection. Pick up native trees, bushes, shrubs, flowers and ground covers for your gardens or pots. These plants not only look good but provide food for our local insects birds, mammals and pollinators. We'll have some parking spaces reserved for pickup and people on hand to help answer questions or help with loading.

Fairview Park Rewilding

Saturday, May 9, 9 AM - Noon

Fairview Park, Fairview entrance

Help improve our largest woodland and home for nature

Thanks to dedicated Rewild Eastlake volunteers and a few others who have made fixing this park their hobby, Fairview Park has seen great improvement in the last year and a half. But much remains to be done. Invasive plants like Himalayan Blackberry, Clematis and English Ivy need to be pulled, mulch moved and spread and, as always, litter and garbage removed.

We'll supply the tools. Just wear work clothes, and, if you have them, work gloves. We'll have fortifying coffee from Framm down the street as well. This is an excellent project for anyone needing volunteer hours for school or work.