When: October 14, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
FIND FRIENDSHIP AND FULFILLMENT WHILE HELPING THE EARTH
Join us for some golden hour stewardship on your Wednesday evening and help us remove invasive, nonnative privet at an important cultural site in Franklin. Privet aggressively displaces our native plants, turning diverse wildflower patches into unsightly thickets and removing sources of wildlife food and shelter. Get your blood pumping during this quick workday, and enjoy a beautiful early-fall evening with your likeminded neighbors while you restore native habitat!
The main tasks during this workday will be removing small privet trees by hand with loppers and hand saws, then treating the stumps to prevent regrowth. We will plant native thistles following privet removal, which are fabulous pollinator wildflowers! Volunteers will have to drive their vehicle uphill through a pasture, so decent clearance and AWD/4WD is recommended (though not required- let us know if you need an alternative.) Work will occur near (but not at) the Macon County Airport. Volunteers will receive exact meeting location and details upon registration. See map below for an approximate workday location- the exact location is about 5 minutes away from the airport.
This workday will occur from 6:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday, October 14th. All tools will be provided, just bring yourself, your water bottle, closed-toed shoes, and long pants. Email Paige at [email protected] to RSVP and receive exact meeting location.
