Volunteer Planting Project @ North Branch Nature Center on 10/25/25
WHAT: The 2025 VNLA’s VT Blooms Initiative volunteer planting project.
WHEN: Saturday, October 25, 2025 from 9am – 2pm.
WHERE: North Branch Nature Center located at 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. Learn more about NBNC here.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Volunteers will help renovate a pollinator garden located near the entrance of the Center. This will include removing some existing overgrown plant material, planting of perennials and shrubs, and adding compost and bark mulch. Volunteers can sign-up for the entire day or part of the day. How many volunteers sign up will dictate how long the project will take, however we do not expect to go beyond 2pm. Please bring along your own hand tools and a wheelbarrow if you have one.
VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SHEET: Please add your name to the sign-up sheet HERE.
DONATIONS WE ARE IN NEED OF – all PLANTS NEED TO BE N.E.NATIVE/POLLINATORS:
The VNLA Volunteer Project Outreach Committee is spearheading this project. If you can donate plant material please get in touch with Ashley Robinson (arobinsonld@gmail.com) or Kristina MacKulin (hello@vnlavt.org) about your donation and logistics on delivery to the site.
- 5-10 groundcover type plants that are shade tolerant
- 10 low groundcover plants for rock outcrop
- 20 perennials/grasses, such as Bluestem, Northern Sea Oats, Carex, etc.
- 3-5 shrubs w/max height of 3′-4′; Spirea alba, Diervilla lonicera or other N.E. natives.
- 1 yard of compost incl. delivery
- 1 yard of bark mulch incl. delivery