Join us for our monthly meeting at 310 4th St. You’ll hear updates on all of our projects and programs, learn about how you can support our mission, and join discussions concerning conservation, sustainability, and protecting the Patuxent River watershed.

We have about 100 plants to get in the ground at Laurel's Sweitzer Pollinator Garden! This will add more color and bloom time to the garden. Join us for some weeding followed by lots of planting. We're happy to have you take home some of the taller plants from the garden if you would like!

Wear work clothes and bring water and any gardening gloves/tools you have. We'll have a limited number of tools to share.

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Come help us get the Sweitzer Park native pollinator garden ready for spring! We’ll be planting new plants, weeding, and cutting back some tall plants. You may even be able to take some plants home, so bring pots if you’re interested.

Although we’ll have some supplies, if you have hedge trimmers, weeding tools, trowels or shovels, please bring them. Gardening gloves and work clothes are recommended.

Enjoy lunch and/or dinner at Olive on Main. Dine in or take out. Mention the mural and 20% of your bill goes to help fund it. Donations will be matched 2 to 1, courtesy of two generous patrons. Stop by Olive on Main to see the concept design. Be a part of Laurel’s sustainable future. We can all do our part!

Come help us get the Sweitzer Park native pollinator garden ready for spring! We’ll be planting new plants, weeding, and cutting back some tall plants. You may even be able to take some plants home, so bring pots if you’re interested.

Although we’ll have some supplies, if you have hedge trimmers, weeding tools, trowels or shovels, please bring them. Gardening gloves and work clothes are recommended.

Stop by the L4P booth to meet some of our members, grab some free native plant seedlings, and learn about our work in the community and how you can help!

Join us on Zoom on Monday, May 5 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and environmental progress in Laurel city government.

Celebrate National Poetry Month! L4P has teamed up with the Laurel Arts Council to bring Poetry in the Parks to our city. Join us at Sweitzer Park for the unveiling our very own poem-engraved picnic table. The poem was written by local poet Jennifer N. Shannon. She’ll be there to read the poem and other community members will share what they wrote at our recent poetry workshop. Light refreshments will be served. Come mingle and see the first permanent installation of poems in Laurel parks.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, April 7 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and environmental progress in Laurel city government.

Celebrate National Poetry Month! Join us for a free poetry writing workshop. With provided materials and expert guidance, you will create and uniquely display a poem to honor nature.

Register at laurelartscouncil@gmail.com

This is event hosted in collaboration with the City of Laurel Arts Council.

Come help us get the Sweitzer Park native pollinator garden ready for spring! We’ll be weeding, cutting down stems, dividing, planting, and rearranging. You may even be able to take some plants home, so bring pots if you’re interested.

Although we’ll have some supplies, if you have hedge trimmers, weeding tools, or shovels, please bring them. Gardening gloves and work clothes are recommended.

Join horticulturalist and Laurel City councilman James Kole for a pruning demo! We’ll meet at the newly installed Sturgis Moore Pollinator Garden by the beautiful monarch mural. This is next to the McCullough fields and across the street from the library on 8th St.

Please bring gloves and pruning tools (clippers, loppers, timber saw, etc.) if you’d like to help prune!

Help clean up the areas surrounding McCullough Field! We’ll meet at 8th St. at the pavilion across from the library playground.

Please bring gloves. We will provide trash bags and a limited number of trash picker devices.

Students can get Service Hours Credit for helping with the clean-up. To receive credit, you must bring a Service Form with your name filled in to the clean-up. We cannot complete credit forms after the event.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, November 4 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and environmental progress and problems in Laurel city government

Come out to help protect the Patuxent River!

We will be cleaning up litter along Main St. and cutting invasive vines at Riverfront Park. Choose your own adventure! Or do a little of each!

• We’ll meet and great at the Avondale parking area.

• Trash bags will be provided, as well as some tools, but if you have your own, please bring them. Please bring gloves.

• Kids are welcome to come with their parents.

• Students are welcome to come for service hours, but you must have your forms at the event for credit.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, October 7 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and opportunities, and strategic discussion of conservation of environmental assets in Laurel.

We are in need of 5 volunteers to help weed the new pollinator garden in Sturgis Moore Park. Please bring gloves and a shovel if you have them. The garden is across from the Monarch Mural adjacent to McCullough Field.

Join us on Zoom for our monthly meeting. You’ll hear updates on all of our projects and programs, learn about how you can support our mission, and join discussions concerning conservation, sustainability, and protecting the Patuxent River watershed.

Last fall, L4Per Jimmy received a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust to build a native swale garden to stem the flow of storm water in his small HOA. Now the garden is growing in and needs a round of weeding to keep it looking sharp. Neighbors built this garden and they are asking again for our help. This will be the final polish before they’re featured on the Laurel Garden Tour!

You can learn more about the project here: https://streetcarsuburbs.news/native-gardening-with.../

Come on over for an hour or two and help pick weeds. They will have gloves and garden tools to loan, if you don't have your own.

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Help us pull the weeds from the gardens around the Laurel Museum. We'll teach you how to identify the weeds (European non-natives) from our plantings (native to MD). We expect to finish a bit early, so those interested are welcome to head down the road (<5 mins by car) to the pollinator garden at Sweitzer Park. Both gardens are supporting our local wildlife and providing residents with an example to follow.

What to bring: Garden gloves, weeding tools, small shovels, etc (some gloves and tools will be available to borrow)

Please note: All volunteers must sign liability waivers for L4P, which we'll have at the work site. or you can find in the Forms section of the website. Students, including those needing community service hours, are welcome, but parents must sign waivers if under 18, and school paperwork should be provided on the event day.

Join us on Zoom for a presentation by Jennifer Greiner, Director USFW Patuxent Refuge, and Dan Murphy, USFW Manager Division of Habitat Conservation and Restoration about the Proposed Southern MD Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge (40,000 acres).

Help clean up Old town city blocks and alleys. We’ll meet at Sturgis Moore Park (across 8th St from the library) following the dedication of the Laurel Arts Council sponsored Metamorphosis Park Mural at 12:00 pm.

Grabbers and bags/buckets provided.  Bring your own gloves.  Students participating for community service hours, please bring paper work to be signed

Join us on Zoom on Monday, May 6 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and opportunities, and strategic discussion of conservation of environmental assets in Laurel.

Within living memory, museums have favored stately, showy, sterile gardens. Expansive lawns were dotted with Asian specimen shrubs and flowers. Now, some museums have reimagined their gardens as an extra exhibit, using native plants to teach visitors about local ecology. In the fall of 2022, the Laurel Museum planted their existing beds with plants native to our region. Jimmy Rogers, garden project manager for Laurel for the Patuxent, will share how the design came together, how the plants function (both structurally and ecologically), and how residents can use the same approaches in their own gardens. This is a Zoom event.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, April 1 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and opportunities, and strategic discussion of conservation of environmental assets in Laurel.

After our work in the garden, we’ll be heading over to Oliver’s for some fun and drinks. Come out to mingle with your fellow L4Pers or meet us for the first time and see what we’re all about! All our welcome. Hope to see you there!

Come help us get the Sweitzer Park native pollinator garden ready for spring! We’ll be weeding, cutting down stems, dividing, planting, and rearranging. You may even be able to take some plants home, so bring pots if you’re interested. Afterwards, we’ll head to Olivers for some St. Patrick’s day fun.

Although we’ll have some supplies, if you have hedge trimmers, weeding tools, or shovels, please bring them. Gardening gloves and work clothes are recommended.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, March 4 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and opportunities, and strategic discussion of conservation of environmental assets in Laurel.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, February 5 at 6:30 pm for updates on projects, events, and opportunities, and strategic discussion of conservation of environmental assets in Laurel.

Join us on Zoom on Monday, January 8 at 6:30 pm for updates on current projects and plans for L4P in 2024.