Learn More About Urban Ecostewards

Urban Ecostewards program is organized by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. If you are interested in learning more information about the Urban Ecostewards programs, check out their website at www.pittsburghparks.org/ues.



How can I join?

If you are interested in taking care of Frick Park's biodiversity and habitat restoration join the ECS Urban Ecostewards Team! We are looking for more families, community members and staff to become an Ecosteward. Your responsibility as an Ecosteward would be to come to as many team meetings as possible to help remove invasive plant species from our assigned site. If you would like to join contact either Rebecca Reid at rebeccareid@earthlink.net or Laura Micco at Laura.Micco@imagineschools.com.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Spring at our Ecostewards Site!

- it's getting very waterlogged already (probably why there is so little GM)
- the knotweed is just starting to show (red tips breaking through).

So that needs to be attended to, and, if anyone is thinking of cooking up a KNOTWEED PIE (come on, you know what you said...) then get ready because it will probably be pickable within the next week or two and you might want to get down there (I think Patty said the shoots should be no longer than 4" so that they're tender enough - sort of asparagus- y looking). Here's a good article on cooking KW:

http://www.culinate.com/articles/first_person/knotweed
- this is good: the Japanese honeysuckle overwintered in a lot of the park but I see no sign of it coming back yet on our site. It probably will eventually, but we clearly zapped it nicely last year.
It also looks like some of the plantings from last year are going to come up - yay! (the ones down at the bottom by the stream seem to be peeking through - I think they were monkey flowers). The ones in the marsh area are too waterlogged to tell right now.
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