Summer Meadow Work Day

Forge Project invites neighbors from the region to participate in a Meadow Work Day, learning about and participating in some of the remediation work happening onsite how they can fold simple restoration practices into their own home spaces and gardens. Introductions will be led at 4:15pm and 5:45pm – please sign up for one shift for headcount, but attendees are welcome to stay for the entire time.

Basic plant identification will be led by allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, and seeding overview provided by landscape architect Jamie Purinton to guide our work.

Context for some of the shifts happening throughout the land at Forge Project shared by Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality and Paloma Wake, Strategy and Operations Manager.

Guests are asked to bring their own gardening gloves and handtools if possible; (for example a digging fork, dandelion digger, hand clippers), a water bottle, and a willingness to work together. Snacks and beverages will be provided by Forge Project.

Forge Project operates with the values of reciprocity and relationality. Meadow Workdays are inherently dynamic within these values. While offering education and hosting through food and care Forge Project appreciates participants’ labor in helping us to physically tend the land. This land is the ancestral homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuk peoples and participants are encouraged to make an additional donation to their presence as the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans. All payments for this event will go directly back to support their Cultural Affairs Department and the building of the community’s new Cultural Center in Wisconsin where the tribe now resides.