Get your hands dirty for clean water and a greener Baltimore! Join Blue Water Baltimore staff as we plant street trees in the Belair-Edison and 4×4 Communities along Belair Rd. Novice volunteers and expert TreeKeepers alike are welcome to attend. Our tree planting projects are rain or shine, and we recommend closed-toed shoes and clothing...
Volunteers are needed to help us complete the Village of 12 Trees bioswale. The construction was completed by BWB's own restoration team in February 2024 to help residents with flooding. The bioswale filters the runoff thru is soil and plant roots to remove pollution and slow down flooding. We need 20 volunteers to help us...
We will be planting 20+ trees on the property to green the property, mitigate stormwater, and lessen the urban heat island effect! Come join us on 5/15! Our events occur rain or shine! Please be prepared for working outdoors in the heat or cold, depending on the time of year. We recommend closed-toed shoes and...
What could be better than getting a free tree? Seeing the smiles on your neighbors' faces when you give them a free tree! Our first tree giveaway of 2024 is coming up and we need volunteers like you to make our Free Tree Giveaway coming up on May 18 a success! The training will be...
Join us at Stillmeadow Community Fellowship for a tree giveaway this fall and discover the many benefits of native trees. Blue Water Baltimore is partnering with Baltimore County EPS, Baltimore City's TreeBaltimore and Stillmeadow Community Fellowship to offer a variety of tree species to residents of Baltimore City and Baltimore County to plant in their yards. From...
Join us at the Bolton Street Synagogue on Cold Spring Lane in the Evergreen neighborhood. BWB will be planting more than 700 native plants in a 2000 square foot slope on the Bolton Street Synagogue property, creating a refuge for pollinators, birds, and other species as well as mitigate pollution into Stony Run!
PLEASE NOTE: This event is intended for residents of the Herring Run Watershed. We hope to add more community water sampling days soon! Do you have a favorite spot you like to recreate on the water? Learn how pollutants are entering your waterways and collect a sample to be analyzed in Blue Water Baltimore’s community...
The rocks, roots, and riffles of our local Baltimore rivers are rife with benthic macroinvertebrate life, better known as water bugs! These tiny creatures are a big indicator of waterway health. Join Blue Water Baltimore staff to explore a local stream, search for and identify benthic macroinvertebrates, and learn about types of pollution that can...
June 17-23 is pollinator week! Come celebrate our pollinating friends at Herring Run Nursery, see our new pollinator garden, and learn what you can do to welcome these useful friends into your own yard. The nursery will be open 9-4 for shopping, with a special pollinator garden walk-and-talk at 10am. Watermelon and lemonade will be...