31.03201410/07/2021
Fourth Annual Earth Day Willow Creek Community Clean-up

Fourth Annual Earth Day Willow Creek Community Clean-up

By In Community, Volunteers

Friends of Willow Creek will be hosting the fourth annual Earth Day Willow Creek Community Cleanup and Native Plant Restoration on Saturday, April 26th, from 9:00 am to 12:30pm. Each year, Friends of the Creek volunteers invite community members and families to join this annual event dedicated to clearing invasives and planting natives.
Willow Creek is part of a growing network of restoration efforts in Marin County led by volunteers dedicated to restoring and enhancing our natural resources and  raising …

15.03201410/06/2021

Celebrate our 4th Annual Earth Day cleanup and planting!

By In Community, News & Updates, Restoration, Volunteers

Please save the date to celebrate our 4th Annual Earth Day cleanup and planting!

When:  Saturday April 26, 9am to 12:30pm
Where:  Willow Grove at Nevada and Bridgeway, Sausalito
How:  Work with neighbors and naturalists to identify and remove nonnative blackberry, fennel, ivy, hemlock, and broom plants that crowd out natives and open space by the creek.  Also plant some native plants from our school’s hoop house that were donated by Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery.
Why:  To create outdoor …

05.04201310/07/2021

Earth Day 2013 at the Creek!

By In Community, Education, Volunteers

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 …

27.03201310/06/2021
Jiji Foundation Grant Obtained!!!!!!

Jiji Foundation Grant Obtained!!!!!!

By In Community, Education, Restoration, Volunteers

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 …

01.01201308/10/2013

Happy New Year from FOTC

By In Donate, Volunteers

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 …