September 13th , Overview of Volunteer opportunties, panel discussions.

Greetings, thanks for visiting my blog on the latest volunteer opportunities. Remember your feedback and opinions are important to us. We look forward to you joining our next event. If you are interested in attending please RSVP. Also we will have a community engagement table set up.

Be sure to book mark this page for future opportunities. See our list of links on the right side of this blog.

August Activities, Plant SIG at ELC, Creation Care zoom, Farm Friday at ChoZen.

Aug 7th Thursday Volunteer Orientation at Environmental Learning Center. Wabasso Causeway.

Meet like-minded people for nature, conservation and sustainability educational projects. .Learn about their special interest groups, native plants, and invasive plant eradication. touch tank, and plant nursery. Need people with wood-working and carpentry skills for walkways. Register NOW to prepare for upcoming volunteer opportunities for the upcoming months. Learn more CLICK HERE

Aug 8th Farming Friday at Chozen Retreat. from 9:am to Noon. Weeding, vegetative clearing, harvesting. Develop new skills while learning about Permaculture. A few perks too. Roseland location ask me for map and ask me about the PERKS

Aug 12th, Creation Care Team with virtual meetup 7;30 pm.. Learn what interests people of faith with environmental topics including stewardship, environmental and climate justice, Watch and engage with like-minded people. Wanted: Gardeners for vegetative home grown produce project. Plus seedlings and seed exchange.

Reply in email if any of the above activities interest you so I can send you the Zoom link.

Treasure Coast Cleanup, multiple locations and times

Ambitious project to clean up 125 miles of waterways in Martin, St. Lucie & Indian River counties. This event is for all ages; perfect for students, service clubs, fishing enthusiasts, metal detectorists. yacht clubs or anyone who wants to be part of the solution to pollution. All volunteers will receive a free event T-shirt. water, loan with grabbers and entered into raffle drawing for prizes. Sign up CLICK HERE

This cleanup starts July 26th at 8:am for the group effort. Although the cleanup lasts until July 30th for those who want to self-report. Self reporters need to take pictures of the trash they picked up and registered to be eligible for the perks. .

Big plus, this cleanup operation has multiple locations across multiple counties. Sign up for details on these other locations that include boat-ramps at Wabasso Causeway, Ft Pierce, Port St. Lucia, Stuart, and Peck Lake.

Follow this page so we can keep you up to date on this and other similar activities. Plus see replies with helpfuyl tips including safety ones.

Staging area at Wabasso Boat Ramp. Log located at 27°45'24.5"N 80°25'19.8"W

Upcoming Activities: Volunteer at ChoZen, ORCA, ELC plus Yoga at Kashi.

Greetings, here are events that will interest you. I'm including a lot of planting activites as these are good opportunities to learn how to grow plants which is important for our food supply and climate adaption.

Friday 6-20 ChoZen Retreat Farm Friday meets at 9:am, Help with the harvest and meet us at the Harvest House, 11115 Roseland Rd, Sebastian, FL 32958 Reply back and I will send you a map as it's a big area.

Saturday 6-21 Yoga on the Summer Solstice at the Kashi Retreat Donation requested. Kashi Ashram 11155 Roseland Road Click Link for more info HERE

Wednesday 6-25 ORCA Research Citizen Science Nursery Maintenance Day June 25·8:30 – 10:00am, Learn how to care for plants that will save our river shorelines. It's a little tricky to find, text me or email me for directions. Click Link for more info HERE

Coming up in July, Join the Environmental Learning Center onboarding for volunteers on July 3rd.

Green Team Update: May activities, volunteers needed

Had a blast at our last activity, an informative seminar from Fleet Farming.

Tuesday May 27th 6:pm to 7:30: pm Friends of San Sebastian River have their monthly general meeting at North Indian River County Library 1001 Sebastian Blvd, Sebastian, FL 32958, USA. This event is not sponsored by the library.

Guest speaker Dr. John Trefry, Professor Emeritus, Florida Institute of Technology, will give a presentation on sediments and nutrients that have accumulated in the river and the Indian River Lagoon. Dr. Trefry studied sediments in the Lagoon and tributaries to help determine sources of nutrients and how muck contributes to the problem. for more information visit FSSR.

While there be sure to visit the Green Teams community engagement table outside the front of the library. Ask about our Free potted plants.

Wednesday May 28th 9:30am be part of the solution for healing the Indian River Lagoon by voluteering at the next Team ORCA seminar. Attendees will be trained on maintaining a nursery for native plants used for shoreline restoration projects. For more information visit: Team ORCA

Friday is for Farming at ChoZen Retreat. Starts at 9 am. I need someone to assist in cataloguing plant specimens for a spreadsheet. Ideally a Google photo application on an Android cellphone is needed but if you have an app that identifies plants that is good too. Email or text me for more instructions.

Mark your calendar for June 10th a Tuesday for our Green Teams brown bag luncheon. More instructions to follow.

Chief Mapo of Amazon Tribe at ChoZen Retreat.

Join in for time to hear the sacred chants and activiite of Chief Mapo.

For more info CLICK HERE

Activity update: Green Teams to the Rescue

Purpose

Organize a group of similar minded people with environmental and conservation interests, then further discover their sub interests. Then create presentations to show them a variety of activities related to their interests.

This will include allies, outside organizations like nature clubs, municipal entities, non profits. etc needing volunteers and participants. To make it fun we may create a volunteer tee shirt with their organization’s name on it.