When: December 12, 2024 @ 1:00 pm
FIND FRIENDSHIP AND FULFILLMENT WHILE HELPING THE EARTH
Join us every other Thursday from 9am-12pm to make friends and challenge your muscles while enjoying WNC’s beautiful scenery! Whether it’s building bridges and maintaining trails on one of our preserves or removing invasive species and planting trees on an easement property, volunteering with Mainspring will give you a chance to explore, protect, and restore the well-known spots and hidden gems of this region. There are opportunities to use all sorts of fun tools, from chainsaws to sledgehammers to good old fashioned elbow grease!
Location and duties vary per workday. To receive regular emails about the details of upcoming workdays, please fill out our volunteer form.
This week is an extra special workday, our last one of 2024! We will meet from 1:00pm-5:00pm instead of our usual time. This afternoon workday will be held at Cowee View (7955 Bryson City Road, Franklin, NC), where our main duties will be repairing a split rail fence that was damaged in Hurricane Helene, possibly planting native plants along the riverbank where bare soil was exposed during the storm, and clearing vegetation to maintain the meadow at our neighboring property, “Mile 106.” After our hard work is done, we will celebrate the end of the year with a big old bonfire, complete with smores!
Want to help protect the special places we know and love, but aren’t sure you’re up for digging in the dirt? We have indoor, low-exertion volunteer opportunities too! Check them out here.
To inquire about this workday, email Skye.
