Spring Meadow Work Day

We invite neighbors from the region to join us for our Spring Meadow Work Day — a seasonal opportunity to participate hands-on in some of the remediation work happening onsite and learn how you can fold simple restoration practices into your own home spaces and gardens.

Introductions will be led at 4:15pm and 5:45pm – please sign up for one shift for headcount, but attendees are welcome to stay for the entire time.

Basic plant identification will be led by allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program.

Paloma Wake, Forge Project Operations Director, will share about some of the shifts happening throughout the land at Forge Project and the organization’s ongoing relations with the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans, the homeland people who this land belongs to and who belong to this land.

Tools & Sustenance

Guests are asked to bring their own gardening gloves and hand tools if possible (for example a digging fork, dandelion digger, hand clippers); a water bottle; and a willingness to work together.

Snacks and beverages will be provided by Forge Project.

Fees & Suggested Donations

Forge Project operates with the values of reciprocity and relationality. Meadow Workdays are inherently dynamic within these values. While offering education and hosting through food and care, Forge Project appreciates participants’ labor in helping us to physically tend the land.

This land is the ancestral homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck peoples and participants are encouraged to make an additional donation to their presence as the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans. All payments for this event will go directly back to support their Cultural Affairs Department and the building of the community’s new Cultural Center in Wisconsin where the tribe now resides.

Is this program accessible?

Forge Project is actively working to increase all kinds of accessibility, including physical, in our spaces and on the land. We welcome requests for accommodation and are happy to find ways to engage with the land for those who may have limited mobility and or may not be comfortable with physical labor, including children and elders – please reach out directly by emailing [email protected].