Expertise and dedication of volunteers gives us a much-needed leg up on planting projects!

Between stockpiling seeds, transplanting vulnerable saplings, and propagating plants in makeshift greenhouses and along windowsills, the expertise and generosity of Avalonia’s volunteers gives our small-scale restoration projects a botanical jumpstart. This type of work is critical and yet often goes unsung!

Varied and locally sourced, these plants either augment materials purchased from nurseries or, in the case of the field restoration at Moore Woodlands in Groton (with nearly 30 species of grasses, forbs, and shrubs either sown or planted) they serve as the basis of the entire restoration. 

Whether structured or casual restoration work, our Anguilla Brook Northern Headwaters, Tri-town Ridgeline Forest, Hunter Brook, Deans Mill Cedar Swamp, Yannatos, and Leo Antonino Preserves, among others, have benefitted from a diversity of salvaged plants and seeds, as well as a good helping of volunteer “elbow grease”!