EcoAddendum

Eco-A is offering series of Stewardship Walks designed to train local residents and stakeholders in becoming experts on their neighborhood parks and greenspaces, learning their unique character, secrets, and value both for the metro-Atlanta and and for our  -- from knowing trees, birds and wildlife to how to remove invasive species and keep parks and greenspaces healthy and sustainable for the future. We'll teach how to recognize old growth trees and original forest remnants, special native plants, bird calls, animal…

This walk is full – now taking wait list Eco-A is very fortunate to host a special walk in a West Atlanta greenspace near Utoy Creek with renowned botanist and author Linda Chafin, whose most recent publications include Field Guild to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States and Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.  This walk is offered in association with Eco-A's Diversity+Bio-diversity=Resiliencypanel discussion at the Park Pride Annual Atlanta Greenspace Conference. Because Atlanta's growth history was…

Our executive director Kathryn Kolb will be leading a naturalist walk through Blue Heron Nature Preserve  as part of their Earth Day celebration! Come walk with us on April 21st as Kathryn teaches about the diversity of plants and trees found in this unique urban greenspace in the heart of Buckhead! Follow this link to sign up! https://www.ecoaddendum.org/services-and-programs/classes/registration-form/, or sign up through Blue Heron’s website https://bhnp.z2systems.com/np/clients/bhnp/eventRegistration.jsp?event=808&.    

Relict oak, Sweetwater Creek State Park Join Kathryn Kolb for a hike at Sweetwater Creek State Park, where an unusually wide variety of native tree species can be found, from horse sugar and horbeams in the floodplains, to chestnut oak and blueberry on the ridges. We'll take the road less travelled, doing the back loop, yellow trail, about 3 miles total, which includes a few respectable hills. Changes in topography express interesting changes in trees and plants here, including species…

                                                   Forest near Proctor Creek This walk is full – now taking wait list Jessica Muhammad, co-founder of Eco-A's Walk About Down Yonder program, returns to lead health and healing walks in the Shinrin-yoku, or "Forest Bathing," tradition, originally begun in Japan and now popular worldwide. Simply being in a forested natural area can actually be…

This walk is full - now taking wait list There was so much interest in this event last year that we're offering it again -- and this time in May, when the forest should reveal a rich understory of wildflowers along both the Unicoi Path and Bald River Falls trails.   Eco-A hosts this very special outing just over the Georgia border in Tennessee, with guest leader Quentin Bass, Archaeologist, Heritage Manager and Tribal Liaison for the Cherokee National Forest. Quentin…

Jessica Muhammad, co-founder of Eco-A's Walk About Down Yonder  program, returns to lead health and  healing walks in the Shinrin-yoku, or "Forest Bathing," tradition, originally begun in Japan and now popular worldwide. Simply being in a forested natural area can actually be used as medicine. And we're not talking about exercise -- new research shows a wide range of health benefits come from slow mindful walking or even just sitting in a forested place. Benefits include reducing the stress hormone cortisol, increasing your immune…

Beaver work - they love Sweetgum trees, at Hidden Acres. Marbled salamander Join us for a special walk in  DeKalb County's Hidden Acres Park, one of the Atlanta-area greenspaces inducted into the Old Growth Forest Network last year. Most trees are not as large as those found in some older forested areas, but there is an unusually high diversity of trees and native plants, indicating old growth soils are still intact, and the original, native forest is growing back. One…