Thanks to all who joined us for a successful Earth Day/Global Youth Service Day event on Sat. April 27! It was another wonderfully successful event, where we cleared more space near the creek of blackberries and ivy, and also planted over 200 of our native plants that we nurture up on Willow Creek campus in the Hoop House Nursery (thanks again to Alisa Shor and the Marin Headlands Nursery for all these riparian, meadow and upland plants!). We hauled another …
Jiji Foundation Grant Obtained!!!!!!
The Friends of Willow Creek are honored and excited to announce our receiving an $8,000 grant to create a creek daylighting plan for the Willow Creek Watershed. Daylighting is when you remove a creek from an underground pipe and re-create its open, vegetated channel above ground. Since 2011, we have submitted numerous grant applications, including to the U.S. EPA Urban Waters Program, but we were finally successful in winning a grant from the fabulous Jiji Foundation www.jiji.org that supports community …
Happy New Year from FOTC
First, The Friends Board of Directors would like to wish you a happy new year and hope your holidays have been merry! Christmas for Willow Creek was a very wet and merry one, and the native plants are enjoying their inundation in the floodplain we are restoring and vegetating at Nevada and Bridgeway. This is just what we need to get a native wet meadow plant community going down there to replace the blackberry thorns & briars!
Second, we have …
It’s Official: We are a Nonprofit!
With school out, Friends have been taking care of the Hoop House native plant nursery on Willow Creek Academy campus by watering our 3300 remaining natives twice and week, and also visiting the creek and checking on the native plantings there through the warmer weather.
The long days encourage the re-growth of the non-natives (blackberry, fennel, broom and ivy) and so it would be a good idea to spend a little time this summer weeding and watering our new native …