🌿 Help Restore Brooklyn Creek! Join Our Invasive Plant Removal Team! 🌿
Be part of something amazing! Join us at Birkdale Farm as we enter the final year of our four-year restoration project to bring Brooklyn Creek back to life! Your help is crucial in removing invasive plants and improving this vital salmon habitat.
🔥 Why Join?
✔️ Make a real impact on local wildlife
✔️ Get hands-on experience with cool restoration tools like the Extractigator (on loan from MARS!)
✔️ Work alongside a fun, passionate community
✔️ See firsthand how restoration efforts are bringing coho salmon back to the creek!
📅 When:
🗓 Tuesday, March 18
Morning Session: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Afternoon Session: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
🌧 Rain Date: Wednesday, March 19 (if needed)
📍 Where:
Birkdale Farm – 1836 Guthrie Road, Comox
🔨 What We’ll Be Doing:
✅ Removing invasive plants using specialized tools
✅ Weed whacking and hand-pulling unwanted species
✅ General cleanup in restored areas
✅ Helping improve salmon habitat—spawners have been spotted downstream!
Using the Extractigator
👕 What to Bring:
🔹 Work gloves & sturdy footwear (rubber boots recommended!)
🔹 Long pants & weather-appropriate clothing (we work rain or shine!)
🔹 Water & snacks
🔹 (Optional) Protective glasses, a portable weed-whacker, shovel, or loppers
🔸 Please arrive on time (9 AM or 1 PM) so we can enter as a group with minimal disturbance to the farm. Late? Call Mikala at 613-532-7020 for access.
✨ No need to sign up—just show up! ✨
This work is only possible because of amazing volunteers like YOU and the generous support of Leighton Contracting and LaFarge Courtenay, who have donated over $12,000 in spawning gravel and rock!
📢 Mark your calendar and spread the word! Let’s make a difference together.
🔹 Questions? Reach out here: BCWS contact or call Mikala at 613-532-7020
🌊 Thank you for helping restore Brooklyn Creek! 🌊