You are invited to participate in an Earth Day event Saturday, April 24 workday. Installation of a post and cable fence around a parking area at Belgum Grove will be the primary activity. The posts that will be installed have been harvested on the property.
We will meet at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, April 24, 2010 at Belgum Grove, 3261 500th Street, Hills, Iowa.
Please dress appropriately (gloves, boots/work shoes). Bring equipment if you have it available. Equipment that would come in handy would include: shovel, garden rake, brush loppers and handsaws.
Any questions, please visit our website at www.jcht.org or contact Tammy at 319/338-7030 or 319/310-5215 or Wayne Petersen at 319-430-7480.
Belgum Grove is a 40-acre tract owned by the Johnson County Heritage Trust. It is located one mile north and four miles west of Hills, IA on 500th Street (County Road F-62). Belgum Grove is being renovated. Pond and wetland areas are being installed. Prairie is being re-constructed. A remnant oak community is being restored.
If the parking area installation goes quicker than planned or if more volunteers are available than needed, a crew can be put to work doing understory removal in the oak stand. This will involve cutting of trees, stump treating and brush removal. Brush will be place into burn piles. Another potential of activity may be making of seed balls. This involves blending powdered clay with seeds of wetland plants. The seedballs will be inserted into the shoreline of the new wetland and pond at a later date, where volunteers will be invited back to participate.
