We’ll meet forest steward Heather Scott at her dead end entrance into the park off Spokane St., and continue helping her dive into English ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there over the past several years with many large-scale ivy pulling events, and Heather is readying the area for new plants to go in the ground come November.

We’ll return to Renton at a property being turned into a land-based education and cultural center. Prior to taking ownership, the land was a frequent hotspot for camps, so there is quite a bit of material to gather around the perimeter.

We’ll collaborate with Heather on some much needed trail work in Schmitz Park, heading into the wet and sloppy season. Wear good boots and clothes that can get muddy…it’s that kind of event. We’ll likely be hauling gravel, digging and spreading materials.

We’ll return again this week to where Hwy 99 comes down and connects with East Marginal Way to the south of the bridge. We’ve worked this area the past two weeks and made a great start of removing the leftover piles from earlier in the year.

Over many weeks now we’ve removed tons of overgrowth and dirt from the parking lot and curb areas under the West Seattle Bridge, most recently with the help of SDOT and Nucor Steel. It’s tough work but it’s looking amazing where we’ve removed the invasives and then the dirt, and it should prove to cut down on the perennial overgrowth down there.

We’ll join Lisa again with Friends of Lincoln Park (FLiP) along the front of the park where FLiP has been working for a while now. Their Planting Day is coming up, and we’ll help Lisa over the coming weeks get the dense area cleared and ready for native plants.

Join us on Sunday, October 18 for a cleanup event in the Central District. We’ll meet at Powell Barnett Park and send teams out in all directions to beautify our streets, remove litter and build community together.

We’ll return to neighbor Mary’s home along the College Street Ravine where we are working on reclaiming her back and side yards from years of overgrowth. We dug out Charlie’s old car last visit, but there’s still an opaque wall of blackberry, ivy, and a fig tree to work on.

We’ll return with Tim and Seattle Parks & Rec, to Luna Park this coming week we’ll continue removing turf and spread wood chips in preparation for the city and Robyn to select some new natives to go in. There will also be some clematis removal along the breakwater rock pile.

We’ll return again this week to where Hwy 99 comes down and connects with East Marginal Way to the south of the bridge. This week we’ll continue hauling out, and queueing-up the cut material in the planting beds so SDOT can stay on top of the overgrowth.

The past several weeks we’ve removed a ton of overgrown material and dirt from the parking lot and curb areas under the West Seattle Bridge, most recently with the help of SDOT and Nucor Steel. It’s tough work but it’s looking amazing where we’ve removed the invasives and then the dirt.

We’ll join Lisa with Friends of Lincoln Park (FLiP) along the front of the park where FLiP has been working for a while now. Their Planting Day is coming up, and we’ll help Lisa over the coming weeks get the dense area cleared and ready for native plants.

I’m doing a little impromptu cleanup where we’ve been working the woods behind the Picnic area in the south end of the park. I’m setting up some pickers and buckets for a Girl Scout event from 1-3pm in the north end of the park and will be working in our area in between.

Group member Melissa reached out about doing another cleanup with folks from her work at Docusign. We’ll have an afternoon event starting at South Park Plaza, and spread out in all directions into the heart of South Park. There should be plenty of picking up and Sprucing work to do.

We were invited to host a table at Vashon High School’s Community Service Fair this year. Each year VHS students are required to complete a minimum of 25 hours of community service with a regional non-profit. We got connected with VHS through Lewis, our Youth Ambassador over the summer, who donated his time towards ACA work for the years he was a Vashon student.

Earlier this year we did a massive series removing butterfly bush and blackberry along East Marginal from the West Seattle Bridge to where Hwy 99 comes down and connects with East Marginal Way to the south of the bridge. We’ll revisit where we left off and see what needs addressing.

The past several weeks we’ve removed a ton of overgrown material and dirt from the parking lot and curb areas under the West Seattle Bridge, most recently with the help of SDOT and Nucor Steel. It’s tough work but it’s looking amazing where we’ve removed the invasives and then the dirt.

We’ll return to neighbor Mary’s home along the College Street Ravine where we are working on reclaiming her back and side yards from years of overgrowth. We can also start digging Charlie’s old car out of the driveway as it’s buried under blackberry, ivy, and a fig tree.

We’ll meet up with DNDA and work on more cleanup of Roxhill Roxhill Park. This was at the invitation on DNDA so will follow their lead on where we’ll be working, Seattle Parks & Rec may also be there. There will be lots of garbage to collect and hopefully some conversations can be had in ways to remedy this ongoing problem area with folks who can make a difference.

The past several weeks we’ve removed a ton of overgrown material off the parking lot and curb areas under the West Seattle Bridge. We’ve been working lately on piling the accumulated dirt that sits down there to see if we can get Nucor or SDOT to haul it off.

We'll join Puget Soundkeepers down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. This was an invite from Soundkeepers so we’ll kind of follow their lead. I’m thinking our group could probably work east towards the encampments and on the other side of the street in the lot we’ve been cleaning up over the past several years.

Show Up Seattle is the city’s new Day of Service event with tons of events all around town. Join us as we continue our Sprucing work in south Seattle, cleaning up a walkway between S. Barton Place and Rainier Ave S.

Our previous visits to my neighbor Mary’s home along the College Street Ravine have gone very well. We’ve cleared probably 3/4 of the yard of ground ivy and invasives, and have wood chipped it as we’ve uncovered ground. This trip should complete the back of her house.

We started Sprucing up the woods behind the picnic area in the south end of Lincoln Park by Shelter #2 two weeks ago and have gotten a lot done—mainly uncovering native plants and pulling holly trees which have taken over planting beds and had become totally overgrown in honeysuckle vines.

Mary & Malio kicked off a new Sprucing project last week over by Cleveland High School, right on the east side of I-5. It’s a little park area at the bottom of a residential street that could use some love, some weed and invasive pulling, and some wood chips. We’ll join forces with SDOT this week and help get in headed more in a positive direction.

The past three weeks we’ve removed a lot of overgrown material off of the parking lot and curb areas under the West Seattle Bridge. There’s still more where that came from, as well as accumulated dirt that sits down there. We’ll continue removing the brambles, butterfly bush, and other weeds, and I’ll bring wheelbarrows and shovels to scrape the concrete and consolidate the dirt.

Our previous visits to my neighbor Mary’s home along the College Street Ravine have gone very well. We rung the closest ravine trees of ivy, peeled it off the cyclone fence, raised the undercanopies on the trees for better access to the yard, and removed blackberries and other invasives.

We started Sprucing up the woods behind the picnic area in the south end of Lincoln Park by Shelter #2 last week and got a lot done, mainly uncovering native plants and pulling holly trees that had taken over planting beds and had become totally overgrown in honeysuckle vines.

The triangle is in a very cool little residential neighborhood, just several blocks west behind South Park Plaza. There’s lots of ivy, blackberry, holly, and weeds to address. We probably got half of the area cleaned up last week and should be able to wrap it up and spread some mulch this week. It will look great when we pull away from this one.

The past two weeks we’ve removed a lot of overgrown material off of the parking lot and curb areas under the West Seattle Bridge. There’s still much more where that came from, as well as accumulated dirt that sits down there. We’ll continue removing the brambles, butterfly bush, and other weeds.