Current Activities
Potomac River Watershed Cleanup 2011
The 23rd Annual Alice Ferguson Foundation Potomac River Watershed Cleanup will take place on Saturday, April 9. Please join LAND at our location on the Monocacy River. We will be cleaning up the Monocacy River area near the Monocacy Bridge in Frederick County.
Time: 9am-Noon
Directions: Take Route 28 west through Dickerson. Cross into Frederick County. Go about one mile to the Monocacy River Bridge. Park in the lot on the right just before the bridge.
Please call 301-972-7266 or email us at garth@landandnature.org if you are planning to attend.
Spring Roadside Clean-up
Join us on Sundays in March to beautify our Poolesville area roads. This activity is rain or shine so please dress appropriately. Boots or heavy duty shoes are strongly encouraged. Look for the signs and Garth's pick-up truck! Elementary school students must be accompanied by a parent in order to participate. Older students will earn SSL hours. If you can't join us on one of these dates, you can still help by picking up trash you see along your own roadside. We can all help to make a difference.
Sunday, March 13th 10am-12pm - Route 107 in Poolesville (meet at HealthWorks)
Sunday, March 20th 10am-12pm - Barnesville Rd.
(meet at The Barnesville School near the intersection of Barnesville Rd. and Peach Tree Rd.)
Sunday, April 3rd 10am-12noon - Route 109 from Poolesville to Beallsville
(meet at the old Staub's restaurant building at the corner of Rt. 28 and Rt. 109)
Please let us know if you are planning to attend.
LAND is now on Facebook
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Recycle Your Used Copier, Fax or Printer Cartridges
LAND is excited to announce it's participation in the Green School Project. Drop off your used cartridges (and cell phones!) at one of our sponsoring businesses in Poolesville. Just look for the brown and white box! You will help keep plastics out of our landfills and the proceeds LAND collects from your used cartridges will help support LAND programs. Thanks to our sponsors:
- Drs. Pike and Valega, DDS (box is inside the lobby)
- Selby's Market (box is on the windowsill)
If your organization or business would like to sponsor a cartridge collection box or donate your used office cartridges, please contact LAND. A LAND volunteer will come to your location to discuss the program with you and will pick up your collected cartridges on a schedule that is convenient for you.
Recent Past Activities
Third Annual LAND Party
The 3rd Annual LAND Party and Silent Auction was a great success. We hope you will join us again next year.
See photos from the event!
2nd Annual LAND Party
LAND students (past and present) and their family and friends, faculty and staff from LAND schools, and volunteers and donors enjoyed a wonderful fall afternoon and evening of good food, live music, and nature activities.
Corn Stalk Cutting
Stalks were sold locally to raise money for Monocacy Elementary PTA, Poolesville Elementary PTA, and a local environmental non-profit.
Plants for Polio Plus
On Sunday, September 2, 2008, LAND volunteers dug up, separated and bagged bulbs used as to raise money for Plants for Polio Plus, Monocacy Elementary School PTA, Poolesville Elementary School PTA, and The Barnesville School's 8th Grade Fund.
The Freedom School
LAND participated with The Freedom School by taking campers on a nature walk.
Hope in a Home
LAND had the pleasure of working with Hope and a Home and their "To the Moon and Back" summer camp. LAND provided an arts and crafts/nature rotation for the kids. Kids made their own baskets from wisteria vines.
Field Trips!
The ELF School and ELF School 2 visited LAND in April. Monocacy Elementary School's 3rd grade "Plant Day" was May 14.
Earth Day at John Poole Middle School
To celebrate Earth Day, LAND will be working with the 6th grade science classes throughout the day. A new garden area is going to be created in front of the school
Potomac River Watershed Cleanup
We had 18 volunteers take part in the Alice Ferguson Foundations 20th Annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup. Aproximately 40 bags of trash were collected. Some of the most unusual items were: a large tractor tire; a TV; fishing poles; a machete. Thanks to the Dickerson Market for supplying the bags.
Road Clean-ups in the Agricultural Reserve - Just the Beginning
Over 50 volunteers participated in six sessions of roadside clean-up. Our volunteers cleaned over 11 miles of local roads (Routes 107 & 109 and Barnesville Road) and spent a total of 180 man hours collecting approximately 300 bags of trash! That's enough to fill almost 30 bags per mile. Thanks to all who helped. This is just the beginning of our "litter awareness" campaign.
Woodstock Equestrian Center Clean-up
It was a cold and windy day so turnout was small. We had 5 volunteers do an excellent job. The debris cleared from the woods was enough to fill three pick up trucks. It included tires, two vacuum cleaners, bedsprings, lots of scrap metal, bottles (some interesting antique bottles were found), cans and much more. It looks great! Thanks to all who helped!
Making Maple Syrup
We had a great turnout and the kids enjoyed banging the taps into the trees. Let us know how your syrup turned out.
