VRA Volunteering: Garlic Mustard Removal

The VRA has been approached by the Parks Department to help out with keeping our parks beautiful and we need all the volunteers we can get!

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to help remove the invasive Garlic Mustard plant from Creekside Park, which is at the southeast corner of Zionsville Road and Highway 334 (behind Century 21; south of Lion's Park). Organizers from the VRA will be on site the entire morning, so feel free to contribute as much or as little as your schedule allows.

The process will involve pulling the plants, roots and all, from the ground and removing them from the park in trash bags. The good news is that the plants pull quite easily. The bad news is that there is a lot of them, but if we can remove the plants before mid-May then we'll prevent the spread of seeds.

The benefits: fame, glory, bragging rights, a beautiful park with native flora, and free coffee and bagels provided by the VRA! The Parks Department will provide the trash bags, so just show up in woods-y attire. Garden gloves are recommended.