Find friendship and fulfillment while helping the earth! Email Skye at [email protected] for more info about this event.
Join us every other Thursday from 9am-12pm to make friends and challenge your muscles while enjoying WNC’s beautiful scenery! Whether it’s building bridges and maintaining trails on one of our preserves or removing invasive species and planting trees on an easement property, volunteering with Mainspring will give you a chance to explore, protect, and restore the well-known spots and hidden gems of this region. There are opportunities to use all sorts of fun tools, from chainsaws to sledgehammers to good old fashioned elbow grease!
Location and duties vary per workday. This week, we will be at our new Onion Mountain Preserve in Franklin. Our main goal will be clearing a new section of trail, including cutting down small trees, trimming branches, and removing already-downed trees. If time allows, we will also pick up trash and, as always, remove invasive plants! To join us, meet at the new Onion Mountain parking area at 119 North Laurel Trail, Franklin (where Onion Mountain Rd becomes Mountain Grove Rd.) To receive regular emails about the details of upcoming workdays, please fill out our volunteer form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjtRt0TSWTaIfcXSJi-G6Pxx_iyyggpZL8IQ4xGmiQ5T8XdQ/viewform?fbclid=IwY2xjawFIJrxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeqy1wZBChu2-1zvyOosiWilzpFp-nyI-BKEbTY5l2czdqEWcuEF6s5IKg_aem_rbc3csqLjbkHOrRzgc5XLg
Want to help protect the special places we know and love, but aren’t sure you’re up for digging in the dirt? We have indoor, low-exertion volunteer opportunities too! Check them out here: https://www.mainspringconserves.org/be-a-mainspring/volunteer/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFIJr1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRVmmNffDGDiMMpjYokYBcemExe8cK1CU0xW1nR-z74hkJA3T5TbCXy98w_aem_3jFleQiYfvye7oPr4EQYhw
To inquire about this workday, email Skye at [email protected].