EcoAddendum

For more info about our new Brookhaven Stewardship Program, and how to join, contact us. Stewardship Classes, Walks and other Private Events with Eco-A In addition to our naturalist walks, Eco-A offers 10-12 month Stewardship programs, other educational walks and outings, and volunteer events for neighborhood groups, friends of parks, garden clubs, businesses, community service groups, church groups, and many others. We offer both general and themed walks for all ages in greenspaces in neighborhoods throughout metro Atlanta. Walk themes include…

Join us for a rare chance to visit a premiere Atlanta greenspace as well as help restore it. This unique area is a protected City of Atlanta Watershed Management property along Utoy Creek. This property is a mix of ecosystems from floodplain to ridgetop, and it includes old growth forest remnants and a botanically rich slope that hosts Buckeye, Toothwort, Bloodroot, Trillium, Wild Comfrey and many other uncommon spring native species.  We'll enjoy a walk into the forest, visiting an…

Don't mistakenly plant a Frankenforest!  Join EcoAddendum Director Kathryn Kolb for a talk at Beech Hollow Wildflower Farm's Studio in Scottdale (near the DeKalb Farmer's Market), this Sunday afternoon. Kathryn will talk about how best to choose which trees, shrubs or other plants and wildflowers will be best for your yard or landscape project by using ecology as your guide. When planting to restore native biodiversity - don't mistakenly plant a Frankenforest!  For more information and to register go to: https://beechhollowfarms.com/events/…

Like many places in greater metro Atlanta, Sandy Springs holds pockets of old growth forest, found from greenspaces to backyards. EcoAddendum partners with Environment Sandy Springs as Kathryn Kolb shares how to identify these high value forest areas often found literally around the corner from developed areas. We'll also discuss why these forested area are so important to our urban and suburban landscape, and how to care for and restore these special places. For more information and to register click…

We invite Eco-A volunteers, neighbors and friends of Grove Park to participate in the continued restoration efforts of this special and unique remnant old-growth forest. We'll focus on removing invasive species carefully from this high-value forest. We'll show how to recognize old growth forest remnants and we'll end with a short walk to a beautiful section of Proctor Creek or walk thru the high forest near the ridgeline.  Volunteers have made great progress this year on preventing the spread of Kudzu…

Join us one or both events of this special two-part outing! First we'll visit the best preserved of the remaining covered bridges built by Horace King, a talented bridge-builder, architect and businessman of considerable wealth before the Civil War. King was African-American from a tri-racial heritage, and began building bridges in the 1820's, working primarily in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. He used the Towns Lattice-Truss design which allowed for a longer span with fewer supports. King was a gifted…

Volunteer with our Brookhaven partners:                  Brookhaven Parks & Recreation Coalition (PARC) & City of Brookhaven We need your help!  Today our natural landscapes are threatened by invasive species, but using chemical treatments and indiscriminate clearing only further harms fragile ecosystems. Let's do it right - enjoy outdoor time with friends and neighbors in helping to safely remove invasive species to restore park health. You'll learn about the special quality of Brookhaven Parks, including their trees, wildlife, rare species…

This walk is full - we look forward to seeing you on another walk very soon! Join us for a short hike in an old growth forest remnant in Sandy Springs. The steep slope likely protected this special forest from development, so today we find approximately 200-year old Chestnut Oaks, Scarlet Oak, Sourwood, Mountain Laurel and and host of other native species remaining from the original pre-european settlement landscape of our area. We should still see good fall color from…