Lyme’s Open Space Coordinator is offering four different opportunities in May for residents to help improve and beautify outdoor areas around town – including Whalebone Cove, Reed Landing and the Jewett Preserve. Details below.
Friday, May 5, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Nix the Knotweed at Reed Landing
Join a group of volunteers removing invasive Japanese knotweed from Reed Landing. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own work gloves, clippers or loppers, and bottled water. Cosponsored by the Town of Lyme, the Lyme Pollinator Pathway, the Lyme Land Trust and Friends of Whalebone Cove. To register, send an email to openspace@townlyme.org. For more information, go here.
Saturday, May 6, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Tend the Rain Garden at Reed Landing
Join a group of volunteers tending the native-plant rain garden at Reed Landing by learning how to plant a second dry swale rain garden. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own work gloves, hand edgers, shovels or mattocks, and bottled water. Cosponsored by the Town of Lyme, the Lyme Pollinator Pathway, the Lyme Land Trust, the Lyme Garden Club and Friends of Whalebone Cove. Funding is being provided by the Eightmile Wild & Scenic Committee. To register, send an email to openspace@townlyme.org. For more information, go here.
Friday, May 12, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Nix the Knotweed at Whalebone Cove
Join a group of volunteers removing invasive Japanese knotweed from Whalebone Cove. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own work gloves, clippers or loppers, and bottled water. Cosponsored by the Town of Lyme, the Lyme Pollinator Pathway, the Lyme Land Trust and Friends of Whalebone Cove. To register, send an email to trughouse@comcast.net. For more information, go here.
Saturday, May 13, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Learn & Work Party at Jewett Preserve Meadow
Join a group of volunteers learning how to encourage healthy native plants in a small meadow by identifying and removing invasive species. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own work gloves, lopping shears, hand pruners, handsaws and chainsaws, and bottled water. Cosponsored by the Town of Lyme, the Nature Conservancy and the Lyme Land Trust. To register, send an email to openspace@townlyme.org or mrice@tnc.org. For more information, go here.
