Weed scouting at Deer Grove is both an individual and a group activity.

Each year we assign volunteers areas for them to “scout” during the Spring and Summer seasons. This can be an area that they like to walk, or an area assigned to them. Scouts walk their area every week or so and report any invasive plants that they find. Small quantities they often pull, but larger amounts, they report, and then we use our workdays to go out and remove the invasives.

The invasive species vary by season. In the spring we are hunting garlic mustard, in early summer sweet yellow clover, later in the summer reed canary grass and teasel.

This is an activity that allows volunteers to intimately know an area of Deer Grove—learn its plants, insects and birds, and watch them change throughout the season.

Contact the stewards if this is an activity you might enjoy!