Activity: Native Vegetation Planting
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014
Time: noon – 3:00 pm - light lunch and snacks provided
Park: Aldergrove Regional Park
Meeting Location: 550 Lefeuvre Road (Aldergrove Bowl Parking Lot)
Here is what our friend Roy Teo - Stewardship Technician for Metro Vancouver Parks has to say about the project:
"We’ll be planting up the south slope of an old raspberry farm as part of a reclamation project. Over time, we would like to return the entire raspberry field back into a forest/meadow ecosystem. Since the land was previously cultivated, I’m hoping the ground will be relatively soft and easy to plant in. In total 1,955 native plants need to go into this section. Approximately half of these (depending on group size) will be allocated to BCGA/MVG. Since you guys did such a wonderful job at Campbell Valley last year, I’m think we’ll probably assign most of the potted plant to your group; and save the plugs for EcoBlitz [details]. If I remember correctly, we had 29 geocaching volunteers plant and mulch ~250 plants in ~30-40 minutes last year. Thus, I think 1,000-1,250 plants over 2.5 hours should be reasonable this year."
The main planting will take place the following weekend on October 25 as part of a the Region wide EcoBlitz which is open to the public. Since many geocachers in the Lower Mainland may be attending the Ice Scream Man event in Lynden, WA [details] we decided to hold this event the weekend before. If you can't make it to this CITO event, consider attending another EcoBlitz public planting the following week (Not an official geocaching event).
Roy has said he will arrange for sandwiches or wraps and needs to know if there are any dietary restrictions.
We will need to have an exact number of people attending, please note the number of people in your group and any dietary restrictions in your "will attend" log. Please log your intentions as early as possible.