Spring Spruce Up at Fort Dupont! We will be readying the gardens for their first plant of the year, and for a successful planting season. Projects on the docket include: -Building bee hives and the first half of bee keeping classes -Building a permanent bee farm enclosure -Creating a pollinator plot -Cleaning up and prepping plots for planting -Planting the early veggies -Creating a cinderblock garden wall -Making hose fixtures -Fixing trails in between plots -Making and fixing pallet pens for compost and garbage -Making signs -Building garden beds and stools For the kids: -Building a Free Little Library -Making bee pollinator flower bombs -painting flower pots
Type
Service Project
What To Wear
TMC shirt, clothes to get dirty, and closed toed shoes
What to Bring
Your green thumbs and Charlie Mike! **Bring refillable water bottles! We will be providing less bottled water, and more coolers and gallons of hydration!
Event Contact
When and where
Date
March 25, 2017
Time
09:00 AM - 03:30 PM (EDT)
Location
Fort DuPont Community Gardens
Fort Dupont Dr SE, Washington, DC 20019 in your GPS. If you have trouble locating the Center take Ft Davis Dr SE and then turn onto Ft Dupont drive, you will see the center on your right about 1/4 mile down the road.
washington, DC 20002
Parking Information
Parking on site
