Tinker's Creek Watershed Partners

05/26/2022

Who doesn't like FREE native trees and shrubs?!

Stop by Aurora Shores Pavilion today from 3:00-7:00 pm to pick up FREE native plants!!!

We still have native trees and shrubs available! 🪴 Drop in at Aurora Shores Pavilion TODAY between 3:00-7:00pm to pick up some FREE native plants to add to your landscape. See the *UPDATED* plant varieties below. Available while supplies last!

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa)
Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
Sweetshrub aka Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus)
Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)

Tinker's Creek Watershed Partners

05/26/2022

We had a great evening at Forest City Brewery for our Foraged and Invasives Dinner!

Thank you to our sponsors, ADS, Marks Construction and Hejduk-Cox and Associates.

Thank you to Driftwood Catering for providing the exquisite food featuring foraged and invasive ingredients. Thank you to Plant It Native for coming to our event to provide information to our attendees about native plants. Thank you to the Morning Bird band for playing great music during our event.

Thank you to everyone that attended the event. Your contributions help us to protect and restore water quality and habitats of the Tinker's Creek and Brandywine Creek watersheds.

05/23/2022

Our Foraged and Invasives Dinner is Sold Out!

We look forward to seeing everyone at Forest City Brewery tomorrow night!

If you are unable to attend our fundraising event in-person, you can still learn more about foraged plants in our new blog "Foraging Six Spring Wild Edibles" by our NOWCorps member, Kipp Dietrich.

Visit https://tinkerscreek.org/blog/.

05/20/2022

There are 4 tickets left for our Foraged and Invasives Dinner!

Join us on Tuesday, May 24, to savor locally foraged and invasive ingredients, listen to live music, and enjoy Ohio's oldest beer garden.

Visit our website to register: https://tinkerscreek.org/events/foraged-2022/

05/18/2022

Would you like to receive a free native plant to replace an invasive plant in your yard?

We are partnering with Chagrin River Watershed Partners, Inc. for an Invasive Plant Swap event on Thursday, May 26. Just submit a photo with your removed invasive plant and receive a free native tree or shrub in return!

To learn more and to sign up, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invasive-plant-swap-event-tickets-322714737467

05/16/2022

We have a few tickets left for our Foraged and Invasives Dinner at Forest City Brewery on Tuesday, May 24 from 6:00-9:00 pm! Get your tickets while they last!

To learn more and to view the menu, click on https://tinkerscreek.org/events/foraged-2022/.

We hope to see you there!

05/06/2022

We have just over two weeks until our Foraged and Invasives Dinner!

Join us at Forest City Brewery on Tuesday, May 24 from 6:00-9:00 pm. The fundraiser includes live music, a raffle, a photo booth, a native plant seller, and our experts onsite answering your foraging and native plant questions!

To view the menu and to purchase tickets, visit https://tinkerscreek.org/events/foraged-2022/

05/06/2022

It's Friday!

Join the Audubon Spring Walk Series at the Bedford Reservation on Sunday, May 8 from 7:30-10:00 am. The series is one of the oldest community science partnerships in the country.

Click the link for more information: https://bit.ly/391kN3z

05/04/2022

Rain causes the trash that has accumulated over the winter to migrate toward our storm drains and waterways. Trash can cause blockages in the system, flooding in our neighborhoods, and pollution of nearby water bodies.

Be mindful of where your trash goes and do your part by cleaning blocked storm drains.

05/04/2022

It's May the Fourth.

Get out in nature today or if you can't get outside take a few moments to listen to the sounds of the National Parks provided by the National Park Service at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/index.htm.

05/02/2022

Today is Great Lakes Awareness Day. Great Lakes Awareness Day is a day to appreciate the Great Lakes, and advocate for their continued management and protection.

The Great Lakes contain 21% of the world’s fresh drinking water. Only 3% of all water on Earth is freshwater, and of that 3%, only 0.5% is available to us. The rest is locked away in underground aquifers, soils, ice caps, and glaciers, or it is too polluted to drink.

It’s important to be mindful of how we live day-to-day, and how our actions may impact the the Great Lakes now and in the future. Issues like combined sewer overflows, farm runoff, industrial waste, garbage, microplastics, invasive species, and many other pollutants are leading to the contamination of our lakes.

Protecting the Great Lakes as well as providing infrastructure to improve our management of these lakes should be a top priority.