TLC nature preserves are still open! Stay 6 feet apart, take all trash with you, and avoid overcrowding the parking lots.
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We are currently only hosting small, socially distant volunteer activities, or remote and self-led. Please visit our VolunteerHub page to create a profile if you are interested in volunteering with TLC.
Come 
help us keep Horton Grove Nature Preserve looking clean and pristine. We’ll have a Garbage Bingo Contest and educational activities for kids as we clean-up the preserve trails and borders. This is a great volunteer opportunity for families with children ages 6+.
Please wear closed-toed shoes. You can bring your own work gloves if you have them or borrow a pair of TLC’s.
TLC is creating an educational trail at Brumley Forest Nature Preserve. We need your help to construct, decorate, and place cover boards and frog tubes. The cover boards and frog tubes will provide habitat for lizards, snakes, salamanders, and frogs while also making these animals easier to find and giving us the opportunity to observe and learn about a variety of amphibians and reptiles. This is also an opportunity for volunteers to see Brumley before the preserve opens to the public. Children ages 4 and up can help paint and ages 8 and up can help assemble and place the trail elements.
Please wear closed-toed shoes, long pants, and clothes that can get dirty. Volunteer activities are designed for ages 4+, though younger children are welcome to accompany the group.
TLC’s partner Urban Community AgroNomics (UCAN) has scheduled its first series of official workdays. This will begin UCAN’s creation of the Catawba Trail Farm located at 2080 Sawmill Creek Parkway(see the link below for directions), Durham, NC 27712. Work will begin at 9:00 am on each day and end no later than 4:00 pm. Feel free to drop by at any time during the day.
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/
Volunteers will be provided with refreshments throughout the day.
Activities at these workdays will include:
1. Chipping of branches and limbs
2. Construction of an 8 foot enclosed fence
3. Construction/assembly of raised garden beds
4. Removal of bushes and grass as needed
5. Removal of usable limber from existing buildings prior to demolition
6. Spreading gravel for maintenance of the Catawba Indian Trail
TLC’s partner Urban Community AgroNomics (UCAN) has scheduled its first series of official workdays. This will begin UCAN’s creation of the Catawba Trail Farm located at 2080 Sawmill Creek Parkway(see the link below for directions), Durham, NC 27712. Work will begin at 9:00 am on each day and end no later than 4:00 pm. Feel free to drop by at any time during the day.
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/
Volunteers will be provided with refreshments throughout the day.
Activities at these workdays will include:
1. Chipping of branches and limbs
2. Construction of an 8 foot enclosed fence
3. Construction/assembly of raised garden beds
4. Removal of bushes and grass as needed
5. Removal of usable limber from existing buildings prior to demolition
6. Spreading gravel for maintenance of the Catawba Indian Trail
TLC’s partner Urban Community AgroNomics (UCAN) has scheduled its first series of official workdays. This will begin UCAN’s creation of the Catawba Trail Farm located at 2080 Sawmill Creek Parkway(see the link below for directions), Durham, NC 27712. Work will begin at 9:00 am on each day and end no later than 4:00 pm. Feel free to drop by at any time during the day.
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/
Volunteers will be provided with refreshments throughout the day.
Activities at these workdays will include:
1. Chipping of branches and limbs
2. Construction of an 8 foot enclosed fence
3. Construction/assembly of raised garden beds
4. Removal of bushes and grass as needed
5. Removal of usable limber from existing buildings prior to demolition
6. Spreading gravel for maintenance of the Catawba Indian Trail
TLC’s partner Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN) is transforming a TLC property in northern Durham into a community learning garden and needs your help to make it happen! Come out on Saturday to help UCAN create the Catawba Trail Farm located at:
2080 Sawmill Creek Parkway
Durham, NC 27712.
Work will begin at 9:00 am and end no later than 3:00 pm. Feel free to drop by at any time during the day.
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/
Activities at these workdays will include:
1. Mixing and pouring cement
2. Construction of an 8 foot enclosed fence
3. Cutting of logs into firewood
4. Removal of bushes and grass as needed
Please register below to attend and receive updates about the workday.
TLC’s partner Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN) is transforming a TLC property in northern Durham into a community learning garden and needs your help to make it happen! Come out on Saturday to help UCAN create the Catawba Trail Farm located at:
2080 Sawmill Creek Parkway
Durham, NC 27712.
The group will gather at the street entrance at 9 AM to walk into the farm site. Further directions can be found here: https://goo.gl/maps/
Activities may include:
- lay out the garden beds, to include measuring space between them,
- remove roots from beds area
- line beds with cardboard and fill with soil,
- spread mulch between the beds,
- add support beams/poles to a couple of the structures for safety sake, and remove debris.
Please register below to attend and receive updates about the workday.