TRASH BASH Saturday Sept 25

Come out for the 2nd annual River des Peres Trash Bash! This year, we are concentrating our efforts by combining the Trash Bash with the 11th annual River des Peres Cleanup. You can lend a hand near your neighborhood because we have clean-up sites throughout the enitre River des Peres watershed, including several along Great Rivers Greenway trails.

See the flyer for more details. Also we please ask that you sign a liability waiver prior to volunteering.

Online registration is now open!

Habitat Restoration

Join the River des Peres Watershed Coalition to restore habitat to beautify the riverbank, create more favorable habitat, and reduce erosion. We are currently focusing our efforts on two sites; Deer Creek Park and Mona Terrace Park. We are removing litter and invasive plant species (Japanese hops, Bush honeysuckle, and Wintercreeper Euonymus), and planting a variety of native trees, shrubs and plants to restore the natural beauty along the River des Peres and Deer Creek. We’re conducting this year’s Habitat Restoration events on the first Mondays, third Wednesdays, and fourth Sundays of each month.

Mondays and Wednesdays we’ll be “Diggin’ & Dinin” - we’ll work at Deer Creek Park then stop at a nearby restaurant for dinner and refreshments.

Please note that “Tuesdays at the Terrace” has been changed to “Sundays at the Terrace.” We’re working Sunday mornings to suit the schedules of our regular-volunteers AND to beat the evening heat!

Please come out and join us at these two sites as we work to improve the habitat of the River des Peres and Deer Creek, as the habitat restoration would be impossible without the time and effort of volunteers.

Habitat Restoration Leader Contact Information

Rain Barrel Workshop

Discover the benefits and logistics of having a rain barrel at your home. Members of the River des Peres Watershed Coalition will conduct a brief introductory discussion on placement, construction, and other considerations followed by a hands-on session where participants will make their own barrel to take home!

Cost for class is cost per barrel constructed: $45 MoBOT Garden Member/$55 Non-member

Instructor: RdWPC volunteers assisted by Kim Petzing (Earthways)

Contact: riverdesperes@thegreencenter.org

Dates:

• Thursday Sept 9 @ TGC 6:30 to 8:00
  The Green Center, 8025 Blackberry Avenue - University City
• Saturday Oct 2 @ Earthways 3:00 to 4:30 (rain date Oct 16 same time)
  Earthways Center, 3617 Grandel Square - St. Louis

Rain Barrels for Sale

Harvest rainwater using your very own Rain Barrel ! After two years of tweaking the design and hearing feedback from our users, we are satisfied in the quality of our barrels. We offer our thanks to the Coca Cola Company for their generosity - their food-grade barrels are the foundation of our rain barrels.

Download our order form (.pdf 145kb), informational package (.pdf 238kb), or our installation guide (.pdf, 1.7Mb).

And now…we offer a professionally manufactured rain barrel from Riversides. We feel this is the best looking most functional barrel on the market. Download our informational brochure / order form for more details.

Interview with Jean Ponzi on KDHX

Hear the interview at http://kdhx.org/

Raptor Project's Watershed Tunes - Live! plus Rain Barrels - 4-26-10:

Missouri's World Bird Sanctuary celebrates raptors and their environs with a new musical release, "In The Watershed" - and Earthworms celebrates this achievement with live music in our interview studio! Tuneful rehab biologists Roger Holloway and Joe Hoffmann and their backup trio The Hot Wings feather tonight's eco-conversations with original songs - with all proceeds from CD sales and concerts benefiting World Bird's internationally respected hospital for injured birds of prey. Join these humans and their birds THIS SATURDAY May 1 for a CD Release concert 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. at the sanctuary - details at www.worldbirdsanctuary.org. Nothing like it - or like the birds this place serves! Also - River Des Peres Watershed Coalition can help you plant Rain Barrels around your neighborhood at a barrel-building workshop May 8 at EarthWays Center - or you can buy a fine barrel of your own (recycled from transporting Coca Cola) - find details including WHY USE A RAIN BARREL at www.riverdesperes.org - and start harvesting the rain!

Wend Magazine Interview with Eric Karch

Read the interview at http://www.wendmag.com/