Category: Volunteers

Chapter Volunteer Activity

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Congratulations to Ashley Landry!

Chapter member Ashley Landry is the recipient of NPSOT’s Nancy Benedict Memorial Award!  

The news was announced by Chapter Vice President Gary Bowers at the chapter meeting on August 8, 2024. The Nancy Benedict Memorial Award honors an individual, a group or an organization for a specific act of conservation or public service in the field of Texas native plants.

Ashley is the founder and leader of the Native Plant Rescue Project, where she leads teams of volunteers to ethically rescue native plants from development in Central Texas. In addition, exposure to the project’s plant rescue mission in print and broadcast media is increasing the public’s awareness of native plants.

Congratulations, Ashley, from all of us!

Nancy Copperman, NPSOT-Wilco President, and all members of NPSOT

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Wildflower, the magazine of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Click the image to read more.
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Call for Volunteers: Peterson Community Garden on Aug 24

— by Nancy Pumphrey

Calling all Wacky Weeders! Join us at Peterson Community Garden in Hutto on Saturday, August 24, to give our friends there a hand. With all the rain, the garden has grown wild. Bring gloves, a hat, tools and lots of water. If you have a string trimmer, that will help.

Due to the heat, we will start at 7am and quit by 10am. The address is 205 Hutto Street, Hutto, TX 78634. Parking is on the street.

If you have questions, please contact Nancy Pumphrey using the form at this link. Select Projects/Community Gardens.

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Volunteer Opportunity, City of Georgetown Prairie Project, May 11, 2024

This volunteer effort, assisting the City of Georgetown with its project to convert a former landfill to prairie, was announced at the chapter meeting last night, May 9, 2024. More information will follow in the future. Meanwhile, if you are available on May 11, 2024, to help with planting see below for details.

— by Beth Erwin

Anyone wanting to join the volunteer group working Saturday, May 11 at the former City of Georgetown Landfill site (Mt. Trashmore) should be at the entry gate (red star on the map) at 9:00 AM Saturday. 

It will be muddy.  The area is covered with a thick layer of mulch.  We will be pulling that back in places to expose the soil for planting.  We will have fifty or so plants to put in Saturday.  If you have a rake that will work in heavy mulch and a sharp shooter style shovel you are willing to bring, do so.  Put your name on it.

There will be water for the volunteers.  Otherwise:  full sun, no grass or other vegetation present, muddy/wet in spots, possibly mosquitos.  Gloves strongly recommended.

If you come up College Street on the east side of the San Gabriel River, don’t turn left and cross the bridge.  Go straight to the entry gate.

If you come over the San Gabriel River bridge on College St, the gate is on your left at the end of the bridge.

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Coordinates in Google maps.