The Greater Victoria Green Team with funding support from City of Colwood and Canada Post Foundation, organized 23 GVGT volunteers at Colwood Creek Park! We removed invasive Himalayan Blackberry and planted over 50 native trees and shrubs!
Thank-you so much to everyone who participated: Alina, Alisa, Catherine, Cynthia, Gordie, Human, Jackie, Joe, Kush, Langqing, Linh, Martyna, Megan, Miaoju, Negar, Sanders, Shuyao, Sophia, Stephen, Connie, Virti, Xiaolin, Zhiyuan
Thank you to our in-kind sponsors for providing thank you gifts to our volunteers: LUSH Cosmetics for providing great bath items, EarthRated for providing dog poop bags, Camino Chocolate for providing chocolate and hot chocolate.
Amazing Team of Eco-heroes!
PHOTO ALBUM FROM THE EVENT IS FOUND HERE
Highlights
- 24 GVGT volunteers were engaged and contributed 74 volunteer hours
- 20 of the volunteers had never removed Himalayan Blackberry before, while 19 have never planted native trees before.
- 22 of the volunteers had never been to Colwood Creek Park before.
- We removed approximately 4 cubic metres of invasive plants from an area measuring approx. 100 square metres!
- We planted 58 native trees and shrubs including native Dogwood, Western Red Cedar, Salal and Tall Oregon Grape.
Before and After photos
Volunteers in Action
