In early July, NeighborSpace partnered with the Graystone Community Association to host a movie night at Graystone Community Open Space. Working with Kerri Lastner, Graystone Community Association member and longtime NeighborSpace stewardship partner, NeighborSpace was able to assist in getting the word out and helping provide all the popcorn and snacks you could want on […]
On a sunny morning in early June, NeighborSpace partnered with Blue Water Baltimore to host the Gwynn Oak Bug Blitz! Attendees, ranging from local neighborhood families to a fisherman all the way from Carroll County, joined Blue Water Baltimore’s John Marra to explore Gwynns Falls, searching for benthic macroinvertebrate species (also known as water bugs) […]
On a beautiful Tuesday evening in May, NeighborSpace hosted our first house party since before the start of the pandemic. Over 40 attendees gathered in the backyard of Betsy & Carlton Sexton, longtime friends of NeighborSpace, who graciously offered their home and food for the event. It was gratifying to see a wide variety of […]
Now that the sun is steadily holding sway (if not necessarily steadying the temperature), NeighborSpace staff and volunteers have been out in our parks cleaning, weeding, planting, and enjoying. On April 17th, a class from Meadowood Education Center in Woodlawn joined us at Powhatan Park. NeighborSpace shared information about the importance of trees in the […]
We here at NeighborSpace have been hard at work bringing the spring spirit to our parks! March is the beginning of event season, dodging rain and getting outside to prepare our parks for plant growth primetime. On March 4th, over 20 friends and neighbors joined us at Levickas Woods in Catonsville for a forest walk […]
As shared in September 2021, NeighborSpace was awarded a Battlefield Protection grant from the National Park Service. This grant funds research into the military and societal history of Bear Creek in Dundalk, with the goal of interpreting the 1.25-mile Bear Creek Heritage Trail that is being designed and constructed by NeighborSpace in partnership with the […]
On January 29th, NeighborSpace hosted our first annual Stewardship Luncheon at Bluestone Restaurant in Timonium. Initially conceived as a way to thank our stewardship partners for all of their hard work, the luncheon also fostered communication and cooperation between various park stewards. As Rosa, our stewardship partner at Carroll Watkins park, said, “We had a […]
Hello NeighborSpace community members and affiliates! I am pleased to be the new Program Manager. Thank you to all of the wonderfulstaff and volunteers that have already welcomed me with open arms! I have always had a passion for the outdoors and enjoying all of the wonderfulnatural spaces in Maryland. I have previous experience as […]
In 2019, NeighborSpace acquired a half-acre parcel of land in the historic Dundalk neighborhood of Turner Station. This parcel became the subject of the NeighborSpace 2020 Giving Tuesday campaign. Throughout that campaign, former NeighborSpace Executive Director Barbara Hopkins detailed in three articles (article #1, article #2, and article #3) the complex history of Turner Station […]
All the way back in 2007, the Powhatan Farms Improvement Association (PFIA) reached out to NeighborSpace about a 1.6 acre parcel of land to transform into a park. Funds were acquired, designs were created, and in the autumn of 2017, construction was finally completed on Powhatan Park. Within a year, however, the rains of summer […]