New Poster Shows How Wet Meadows Clean Water

I made these posters to show how our Buhr Park Wet Meadows filter water, keep streams and rivers clean and help produce clean drinking water.

Bioneers 2007 Presentation

On October 21, a contingent from the Wet Meadow Team presented the Wet Meadow Story at the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference at Marygrove College in Detroit.

Celia, Yousef, Sophia, Sabrina, Jeannine and Andy were the presenters.

Jeannine mentioned that this conference is a "haven't seen you in a long time" conference as she spent many years in the Detroit area working on environmental and just issues. True to form... the audience included Jeannine's first grade teacher and a childhood friend.

Volunteers: 6
Hours: 3
Volunteer Hours: 18

Wet Meadow II Fall 2004 Update

It was a great summer for growing!

Since planting day, we've been hard at work making sure that things go smoothly at the wet meadow. It turns out that we didn't need to work as hard as we might have. It was a mild and wet summer. It got a little dry in the fall, so whe had to pull hoses and rely on the generosity of the neighbors who let us use their water spigots.

When all the plants were in, we worried that the ground was too hard, that the plants would dry out, that they'd be trampled... We were also told that if 40-50% of the plants survived, we should be happy. So we were ready for the worst.

We're here to report this fall that probably over 90% of the plants survived the first growing season! Things couldn't be better!

Wet Meadow II Planting Day

Over 100 volunteers participated in planting on June 5, 2004.

Wet Meadow II Groundbreaking

With fanfare fitting the occasion, ground was broken on the new wet meadow on May 16. Jeannine Palms, among many others, took the ceremonial first scoops and the tiny hole was anointed with real rainwater.