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Building community and improving habitat around our urban Colorado waterway.

09/23/2026

A bird maybe? Or a flower? Or the good folks at can help you decide the perfect new ink. A two-hour tattoo session is in our silent auction starting at $150. Bid away!

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09/21/2026

Last call for BeeBQ tickets! We need a headcount so we don't overspend on food. Good times, good barbeque, good folks, and fun and activities for the whole fam this Saturday evening. You should come!

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09/17/2026

Did the drought do in your front lawn? Bid on a premium front yard landscape design from . It's the perfect package a visually balanced, water-wise pollinator paradise that elevates your landscape beyond turf. Starting at $400, this one will move fast!

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09/15/2026

🐝 The BeeBQ is coming right up! Live music, food, pollinators, and fun for the whole fam. Tickets are moving slower than Coal Creek during this drought. Grab yours and join us for our most important event of the year.

Food, music and games to benefit Friends of Coal Creek.

09/14/2026

🚀 13 days until the BeeBQ and our silent auction is LIVE! We’re kicking things off with our biggest item: a full professional landscape design package valued at $2,535. Transform your yard, support pollinators, and help us launch this auction with a buzz.

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08/28/2026

Pure magic.

For the last two years, Erin Robertson has been Friends of Coal Creek's writer in residence. She has composed poems out of seed heads, willow leaves and creek water, and last night, she did it once more for us.

I can think of no better way to close her residency than with her feet in the water, backlit by a sunset while her words made us forget all about the nearby traffic and just about every other earthly worry.

Her ability to find those moments and hold them open long enough for the rest of us to join her is only part of what makes her so special. We were lucky to have her.

Here is the final poem from her residency, along with a picture of her leading the rest of us away without ever having to go far.

08/25/2026

That purple blob? That's the heart of the Coal Creek Pollinator District 💜

After a big summer of habitat building and identification, we've got this big swath of connected high-quality habitat to show for it. It grows garden to garden, the neighborhood to neighborhood. Is it in your area yet? Certify your garden and it will be.

08/21/2026

See that blank spot in the upper left? Let me tell you about it.

Being the amazing (if maligned) creatures that they are, pigeons think the nooks and crannies in our urban landscape make top-shelf nesting habitats. Pigeons are right up there with coyotes, skunks and racoons in creatures that seem least bothered by living as neighbors to humans. Well, a pigeon, we'll call her Jerry, uses that nook for her nest.

(Side note about the nest, I heard from that they looked in the nook a little while ago and saw an egg sitting next to a single stick, so not all creatures are artists, sorry Jerry.)

Like many bird mamas (side-eye to owls whose broods seem disposed to siblicide), pigeons are pretty fierce and demonstrably unhappy is up there painting. But another amazing adaption pigeons have is their quickness to fledge, around 4 weeks from eggshell to independent living.

We can hear young in the nook, so set Jerry's mind at ease, we're going to ease up on the encroachment until that baby has gone to seek the great blue yonder of our city's skies. And once the coast is clear, we'll get that chickadee's background painted and the flowers filled in to complete the second stage of beautification.

This mural is based on Lafayette's identity as a Bird City. Seems right to do right by even one of the least exotic of our birdy residents, amazing though they still are.

08/19/2026

What a difference a day makes.

The second Coal Creek mural by is coming right along. Thanks to our partners , Collective Community Arts Center

08/11/2026

Coming into the final days of voting and only four votes separate options 1 and 2! Get your mural vote in now

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Lafayette, CO
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http://friendsofcoalcreek.org/

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