Piper Creek Restoration Agriculture Project and ReThink Red Deer hosting Solstice Planting Party

Get ready for the longest day of the year and join one of Canada’s largest pollinator garden and food forest plantings!

Thanks to grant support from Tree Canada / Arbres Canada and TELUS, we still have cherry-plums, plumcots, and shipovas to plant, among dozens of pollinator plants at the Piper Creek Restoration Agriculture Project in south Red Deer.

Both days (June 21 and 22) run 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a Pollinator Walk and Talk led by Cynthia Pohl on the evening of the 22nd. 

Refreshments and tools will be provided but you are encouraged to bring your own – please label your tools and dress for the weather.

Please confirm your participation in the Pollinator Garden Planting by completing the CiviVolunteer form here – http://rethinkreddeer.ca/civicrm/vol/#/volunteer/opportunities

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Alongisde the pollinator garden planting, Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) will be wrapping up their “Piper Creek Fish Habitat Restoration Project” with a riparian planting work bee. In support of the overall site restoration, theirs is a multi-year project funded by the RBC Blue Water Fund, and the Environmental Damages Fund, with the goal of improving riparian and aquatic health in Piper Creek, a small tributary of Waskasoo Creek, within the Red Deer River Watershed.

Piper Creek flows through agricultural farmland and through the southern portion of the city of Red Deer between 40 Avenue and 50 Avenue before meeting Waskasoo Creek near the Greyhound Bus station downtown. Piper Creek has been affected by various land uses such as urbanization and agriculture, which have left some of its riparian areas in a state of poor health. In order to improve riparian health, Trout Unlimited Canada, ReThink Red Deer, Cows and Fish, the City of Red Deer, and members of the Piper Creek Restoration Agriculture Project have partnered to improve conditions along Piper Creek within the PCRA Project site.

Volunteers will be able to help TUC plant a variety of native shrub species along the creek to improve riparian health. Prior to the work beginning, volunteers will receive an introduction the project and an overview of the evenings activities. TUC will provide gloves and all of the planting equipment required for this event.

TUC will provide sandwiches and juice boxes to volunteers as well as a jug of water to refill water bottles for all volunteers.

More information is available on the event’s Facebook page.