Volunteer Events

Collect native seed + cut cottonwood seedlings at Heritage Village Park [FULL]

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August 8, 2016

Located just 15 minutes south of St. Paul in Inver Grove Heights, Heritage Village Park is a 50-acre site on the banks of the Mississippi River. Volunteers will collect native prairie grass seed and cut cottonwood seedlings. This native grass seed will be replanted at Heritage Village Park and neighboring Rock Island Swing Bridge Park. Volunteers may also be asked to participate in other restoration tasks that are needed to help improve this site.

Volunteers collecting native seed at Heritage Village Park

Haul brush from the oak woodlands

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July 27, 2016

Thanks to the support of local volunteers and a long-term partnership with 3M, FMR has had the privilege of helping to preserve and restore the oak woodlands at 3M's Cottage Grove facility near the Mississippi River. Volunteers are needed to haul pre-cut brush from this natural area to make way for native species to thrive. A light breakfast and catered lunch will be provided.

Brush haul volunteers at 3M Cottage Grove

Tend the demonstration prairie at Ole Olson Park [FULL]

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July 27, 2016

Join us as we return to one of FMR's newest restoration sites! Volunteers are needed to help tend a demonstration native prairie at Ole Olson Park in Minneapolis' Above the Falls Regional Park. Working with the city and relying on local volunteer power over time, we look forward to transforming the park into an oasis of habitat and respite — returning willows to the shoreline, wildflowers to the slopes and majestic oaks to the terraces.

Ole Olson Park volunteers planting showy prairie species

Make & Take Rain Barrel Workshop - Just $35!

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July 12, 2016

Learn what you can do to make your yard watershed-friendly and bring home your own ready-to-go rain barrel.

Volunteers installing a rain barrel conversion kit

Brown-Bag Lunch: Reconnecting North Mpls to the Mighty Mississippi

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June 30, 2016

As more North Minneapolis riverfront is slated to become parkland, it's important to ensure that new parks and trails are truly accessible to Northside residents. To do this, connections between the community and the riverfront parkland (such as the Broadway bridge over I-94, pictured above) must be improved.

FMR has been working with a researcher from CURA to study Northsiders’ barriers to river access as well as possible ways to overcome them. Join us for a brown-bag lunch featuring a presentation of our findings and discussion about the barriers and opportunities to reconnect North Minneapolis neighborhoods and the Mississippi River.