Land Conservation & Restoration
Monarch Project
Our recent activities are focused on continued advocacy and educational events to inform Mill Creek residents of the importance of adopting sustainable land use policies to help preserve and protect the creek. These include continued support of riparian buffer zones through our new program “The Monarch Project” which links the development of pollinator gardens with Monarch Waystations, placed whenever possible in riparian buffer zones along Mill Creek. Our goal with these gardens is to emphasize the interdependence of the organisms and plants that live and thrive on the shores of our creek. In other words, we encourage people to recognize they share the neighborhood and green spaces with a diverse group of plants and animals that make Mill Creek their home too. The gardens will utilize only native species of plants to provide food for native pollinators, shade trees for aquatic stream inhabitants and shelter and nesting areas for native birds. To support the migrating Monarch butterflies, the gardens also will contain native butterfly milkweed, a plant essential to the breeding portion of the Monarch life cycle.
Tree Plantings
MCWA participate in a variety of tree planting events in Mill Creek and throughout Middle Tennessee.
Weed Wrangles
Yearly Participants in this now national event that started with the Nashville Garden Club. Includes the removal of invasive species such as non native honey suckle, Chinese privet, Bradford pear tree sports and many other species that are choking out our natural vegetation. This supports our local pollinators as well as many pollinators are dependent on survival on specific plants within the local ecosystem.