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Annual Arboretum NEW ZEALAND GARDEN WORK party. BACK!
Arboretum Work Party - Details
9am – 1pm Saturday October 16th!
Join us for a very special weeding event – yeah nah, you read it right… WEEDING (not wedding 😊)!
Seattle Christchurch Sister City Association partners with the Arboretum Foundation to return to the New Zealand Garden for a fall work party to keep the garden in tip-top shape. We invite you to join us for some much needed maintenance and good old kiwi garden love, community building and meat pies! The weeding bit is 9 am— 12 pm, and then the eating bit (celebratory meat pies + beer to thank our volunteers) is 12:00 pm – 1 pm!
In addition to providing valuable support to the Arboretum, the work party is a great way to see how the New Zealand Forest is coming along and looking more and more like our kiwi home. We’ll be working with the horticulture team from the University of Washington Botanic Gardens for this event. They are excited to share their knowledge of the garden and the park (as well as make sure we don’t accidentally pull out an actual NZ plant)!
COVID-19 Precautions
Please note that we have some changes this year due to Covid-19 <grr but needed>.We are capping this event at 20 people, and people over 16 years old. Thank you for understanding! Here are da rules…. Please do all this!
• Do not to attend this work sessions if you are experiencing any symptoms of infection, orhave been exposed to someone with COVID-19.
• Pre-registration is REQUIRED – we will not allow walk ups
• Volunteers should wear a facemask upon arrival and during any gathering.
• Face masks are encouraged for those who are unvaccinated for the entire project.
• We encourage 6 ft distancing when working, or wearing a facemask.
• Please bring your own bottle of water.
• Sanitize upon arrival! Our tools will be sanitized before and after use.
• Volunteers should be 6ft apart when eating and drinking, except when you are in the same home group
• NOTE: These covid policies may change before the event, we will share more information if that is the case.
We may need to cancel the food and drink portion of the day, or the event entirely due to Covid-19 restrictions, but will share that information as we get closer to the date.
Spaces are limited to 20 people, so please RSVP as soon as possible by filling out this link: https://forms.gle/vCSkeeBtBqhLNWum7
Arboretum Work Party - Details
9am – 1pm Saturday October 16th!
Join us for a very special weeding event – yeah nah, you read it right… WEEDING (not wedding 😊)!
Seattle Christchurch Sister City Association partners with the Arboretum Foundation to return to the New Zealand Garden for a fall work party to keep the garden in tip-top shape. We invite you to join us for some much needed maintenance and good old kiwi garden love, community building and meat pies! The weeding bit is 9 am— 12 pm, and then the eating bit (celebratory meat pies + beer to thank our volunteers) is 12:00 pm – 1 pm!
In addition to providing valuable support to the Arboretum, the work party is a great way to see how the New Zealand Forest is coming along and looking more and more like our kiwi home. We’ll be working with the horticulture team from the University of Washington Botanic Gardens for this event. They are excited to share their knowledge of the garden and the park (as well as make sure we don’t accidentally pull out an actual NZ plant)!
COVID-19 Precautions
Please note that we have some changes this year due to Covid-19 <grr but needed>.We are capping this event at 20 people, and people over 16 years old. Thank you for understanding! Here are da rules…. Please do all this!
• Do not to attend this work sessions if you are experiencing any symptoms of infection, orhave been exposed to someone with COVID-19.
• Pre-registration is REQUIRED – we will not allow walk ups
• Volunteers should wear a facemask upon arrival and during any gathering.
• Face masks are encouraged for those who are unvaccinated for the entire project.
• We encourage 6 ft distancing when working, or wearing a facemask.
• Please bring your own bottle of water.
• Sanitize upon arrival! Our tools will be sanitized before and after use.
• Volunteers should be 6ft apart when eating and drinking, except when you are in the same home group
• NOTE: These covid policies may change before the event, we will share more information if that is the case.
We may need to cancel the food and drink portion of the day, or the event entirely due to Covid-19 restrictions, but will share that information as we get closer to the date.
Spaces are limited to 20 people, so please RSVP as soon as possible by filling out this link: https://forms.gle/vCSkeeBtBqhLNWum7
