September 12, 2015: Its My Park Day–A busy day of harvesting seeds and turning compost.

Today has been a busy day for Friends of Brower Park volunteers. Tomas helped  harvest sunflower seeds.

 

 

 

 

With Janice and other community volunteers.

 

We turned the leaf mold [compost) that we have been preparing for use in our beds. It’s amazing how last Autumn’s fallen leaves have decomposed into compost through the work of volunteers. Of course Marco and friends can’t turn the compost without investigating the life living and working beneath the surface.

 

We also collected Maple tree samaras for Josh, the horticulturist at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

And most exciting Tomas spotted two insects we have not seen before in our milkweed patch: a praying mantis and a grasshopper. Can you find them in the photographs below?

Praying Mantis

Grasshopper