Community Native Planting Project

09/06/2026

We know, we know. It's not the best time of year to plant - but here we are! Join us on Thursday, starting at 3:30pm, at Eco City's Bladensburg Farm. We need all the help we can get! Sign up here if you can lend a hand. https://givepul.se/zx5uqt

03/06/2026

Good Morning!

Don't you want to see more of this? Then join us at one of our volunteer sessions!!

Find them here - https://givepul.se/om7w13

30/05/2026

Come visit us at the Cheverly Community Market
Talk about Native plants!
Join CNPP
Learn about the great work we do.
Volunteer!

30/05/2026

Stop by our table at this week's market. 😁🌻

27/05/2026

Visit Community Native Planting Project at Meadow Day.

Join us for UP Meadow Day hosted by Town of University Park Maryland Sat June 27 from 9 - 12 noon at the UP Native Wildflower Pollinator Meadow on Adelphi across from the Hyattsville Library. You are invited! We love dogs too and please leave your dog at home - thank you.

2026 University Park Meadow Day will feature family fun and education around the meadow! Costumes welcome at the Pollinator Parades, enjoy the face painting and dress up as a pollinator at the UP Meadow Day Selfie Station. Light refreshments served. Learn from the UP Tree Program what trees support caterpillars that become butterflies seen flying in the meadow. Find out more about native bees and honey bees - and the differences thanks to BUMBA, the Bowie- Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association. Bring a native plant home while supplies last, grown professionally supported by the Sustainable MD grant and a Monarch Watch plant grant. Learn from our presenters Anacostia Watershed Society the latest about our watershed. PG County residents can sign up for more information on a wildlife habitat consultation with PG County Audubon Society. UP residents can sign up for a large compost cart and all PG residents can learn more about the PG County Compost program. Find out about the Styrofoam Recycling Program and see native bees up close with entomologist Francis Mullen. Learn more about native plants that support the endangered Monarch Butterfly from the Chesapeake chapter of Wild Ones, and adopt a Maryland native caterpillars from the City of Hyattsville. Of course admire the UP Native Wildflower Meadow and take a quiz to win native wildflower seeds to bring home to plant. Please leave your dog at home.

The 6th Annual UP Meadow Day is a community event run entirely by volunteers and sponsored by University Park Town Sustainability Committee. Town of University Park Maryland

20/05/2026

Tale of Three Temps

What difference does densely planting make? Three temperature readings within one minute and 20' apart from each other.

1) Street in front of my house - 140.7 F
2) Densely planted natives in a sunny spot in my front yard 99.1 F
3) Densely planted spot under an oak tree in my front yard 82.8 F

14/05/2026

Because Public Libraries Are the Best!

You all know we love Bladensburg Library! This week CNPP worked with its Teen Action Group to expand our native plant habitats there.

It was the first time planting for nearly all the 25 middle and high schoolers who joined us - and they did a fantastic job!

Go check out their work around the north side of the parking lot! Friends of the Bladensburg Library

12/05/2026

What do you mean you couldn't sign up for volunteering on Thursday? That technical glitch of the registration being closed shouldn't have stopped you! 🙃😉😌🤓

https://givepul.se/7rwhf Join us at@ecocityfarms' Edmonston location this Thursday from 3-6pm.

We'll be weeding the AMAZING native plant food forest we planted last year. We will also be adding some material to our mounded garden (hugelkultur) that we hope to be planting this fall!!

09/05/2026

Don’t miss out on great native shrubs! Half have been sold already! 6401 Forest Rd in Cheverly!

09/05/2026

CNPP’s Spring Native Shrub Sale Has Started! 6401 Forest Rd, Cheverly, MD

Don’t miss out ! Sales are already brisk!