If you’d like to learn how to prepare an area of your yard with a tarp, so that you can grow a beautiful native plant meadow to help pollinators, this free workshop is for you! Join the Friends of Cumberland Mountain State Park (FCMSP) at the Recreation Hall Sunday, March 17, from 1-4 p.m. Andy Linville, proprietor of Obed Forest Gardens, is leading the workshop and tarp laying. You’ll have the opportunity to get your hands dirty.
The workshop will kick off the CMSP “Native Plant Education and Demonstration” Iris Grant project. There will be an overview of the park’s plans for plants at the head of the ADA trail and up next to Shelter One and the ball fields.
Linville will teach how to prepare the ground with tarps to kill unwanted weeds and then participants will have a “hands on” opportunity to put tarps down at the ADA trail head at CMSP, 24 Office Dr., Crossville.
FCMSP welcomes any volunteers who want to help put the tarps and filled sandbags down at the ADA trail head across the street from the park office. It is a large area. In the fall, park officials will remove the tarps and plant. The park looks forward to it being beautiful with native flowering bushes, trees and flowers to help pollinators like monarch butterflies, bees, beetles, birds and wildlife.
For more information about the tarp workshop, text Brad Fox, 281-755-2431. For information about the FCMSP see their website at cmspfriends.com.