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Spring Tidying at the Just Root’s Peoples Pollinator Garden & Meadow

Monday,  April 20, 2026, 9:00 – 11:00am 
Just Roots, 50 Glenbrook Dr, Greenfield
Join us as we prepare the pollinator garden and meadow for the growing season–we’ll talk about how to select and prep dead plants for either habitat, mulch, or biochar material, to be burned before the end of the month (April is the last month of brush burning season). 
In addition to cutting up brush, we’ll prune a variety of native shrubs. We may do a bit of transplanting, thinning, weeding, and harvesting of young spring growth for eating or making tea before the burn. We also may dig (or maybe Just Roots equipment can dig) a ‘cone pit kiln’ in which to turn brush into biochar later. 
Bring gloves, eye protection, hat, & water, and shovels, loppers, hedge shears, and hand pruners.
 
Led in partnership by Patty O’Neill of Edge of the Wild Land Care and volunteers of Greening Greenfield.

This event will be FOLLOWED BY:   Springtime Garden/Meadow Burning and Biochar-Making Day 
April 21, 27, 29th, 2026 (weather dependent) 9-11am

As the weather has warmed and insects have emerged from winter brush, we’ll gather to watch Meryl don a backpack flamethrower and burn the pollinator garden and meadow and return nutrients to the soil. 

We can also feed and layer in prepared brush from the Spring Tidying day into a cone pit kiln to create biochar to reincorporate into the garden later. This will depend on a windless/low wind day, so be ready to join any of these days if you can.