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) […]
The drought has not deterred Butterfly Weed from showing off its bright orange blooms this month! If you want to see it in our sites, check it out at the entrance of Adelaide Bentley Park in Towson or edging the rain garden at Carroll Watkins Park in Gwynn Oak. Common name: Butterfly weed Latin name: […]
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 […]
NeighborSpace is excited to welcome two new Board members! Nancy Goldring and Lance Dennis are both valued community partners who bring a wealth of experience to the team. Please read on for a brief introduction, and we invite you to join us at a future event to meet Nancy and Lance in person! I am […]
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 […]
This legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly passed three bills that NeighborSpace helped advocate for. While each Act has its own focus, together this new legislation will greatly advance land conservation in Maryland. HB 503 (SB 923) establishes the Greenspace Equity Program in the Department of Natural Resources, with the goal of enhancing the health […]
Starting with Earth Day 2023 – Please Join Us! NeighborSpace is hosting a Stream Clean-Up at Tollgate-Wyndham on Saturday, April 22nd, from 10am – 12pm. Address: 10824 Reisterstown Rd, Owings Mills, MD 21117 Parking at Owings Mills Elementary School
All NeighborSpace sites have trees. We keep an eye on them and plant additional trees whenever possible. But some of our sites are truly wooded. Urban forests are often threatened by deer browsing, invasive species, and effects of climate change, such as fungal diseases, and NeighborSpace forests are no exception. Assessing the health of these forests, […]
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 […]