Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is holding their annual shrub potting volunteer event, just a few days after Earth Day 2024. They will be receiving a large order of bareroot native shrub seedlings and will get to work potting nearly 1500 shrubs as fast as folks can get to them. This is great opportunity to get your hands dirty, learn about growing container stock, and check out the greenhouse in Wells! They have selected specific native shrubs with habitat goals in mind for the New England cottontail- many of these shrubs will be outplanted for early successional/young forest habitat restoration projects.
Wednesday, 4/24/24:
The plants will be picked up in Dover, NH in the morning, so they should be ready to start planting at the greenhouse at 12:00 PM.
Thursday, 4/25/24
There will still be plenty of plants to get potted, so they will start at the greenhouse at 9:00 AM and go until they run out.
Garden gloves, sunscreen and hats are recommended, and they will have extra gloves and sunscreen for those who need them.
Please contact Colin McKevitt at colin_mckevitt@fws.gov if you are interested in helping out, even for just an hour or two. He will be sending a follow up email to anyone interested to firm up the details.