The second annual Love Your Watershed Day is in the books!
Thank you to all who joined us for the second annual Love Your Watershed Day at De Vargas Park! It was so wonderful to celebrate our watershed community with you.
Event highlights:
10am – 1pm: Community partner tabling activities
10am – 10:45am: Live music with Nelson Denman
10am – 12:00pm: River cleanup with Rotary Club (meet at skate park)
10:45am – 11am: Live music with Bette Korber
11am – 1pm: Wise Fool New Mexico giant puppetry
11am – 11:45am: Ukulele strum-along with Queen Bee
11am – 11:45am: Water yoga with Genna Waldvogel
12pm – 1pm: Live music with Glorieta Pines (duo)
12pm – 1pm: Water movement workshop with Dancing Earth
Our amazing community partners brought some amazing hands-on educational activities, including:
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Summer event information and giveaways from the City of Santa Fe
- Branded handouts from the City of Santa Fe Water Conservation Office
- Nature educator Ann Hunkins of the New Mexico Tracking Club brought track casts and photos of animal tracks to educate and inspire
- Community glass engraving collaboration with Broken Arrow Glass Recycling
- Identify and draw aquatic critters (and win stickers!) with River Source
- How Much Water? with Cactus Rain NM. Learn how much water you use, and where you use it
- A gorgeous bug display with Santa Fe County
- River monitoring posters from Santa Fe Girls’ School
- Pollinator table with Dr. Olivia Carril, bee expert and co-author of Common Bees of Western North America
- Ask a Master Gardener with Master Gardeners
- Institute for Applied Ecology‘s crafts representing the different stages of the monarch life cycle
- Build a watershed (using paper) with Tech2Solutions
- S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative Community Volunteers resources and information table for unhoused and community
- Santa Fe River Commission
- 350 Santa Fe
- Audubon New Mexico
Many thanks to Bike Santa Fe for setting up a bike valet!
Massive Community Cleanup
Love Your Watershed Day was an extra special occasion thanks to the amazing volunteers who joined our massive, community-wide cleanup between Friday, April 26 to Sunday, May 5.
We’re still tallying up the number of trash bags collected! Each bag of trash collected will receive one prize drawing entry, as well as prizes for “weirdest” finds. Winners will be notified soon. (Many thanks to FS2 Supply Co., Santa Fe Climbing Center, and Trader Joe’s for providing the sweet prizes!)
Participants included:
- Team Hado, Ten Thousand Waves: Friday, April 26 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Arroyo cleanup along Hyde Park Road from Ten Thousand Waves Japanese Spa Resort down to the Sierra Del Norte Trailhead intersection. Meet at the parking lot across the street from the entrance to Ten Thousand Waves. Pizza and cold drinks will be provided for lunch to all volunteers! - Positive Energy Solar: Friday, April 26 from 10 a.m. until 12:00 noon.
Arroyo cleanup between Gonzales Community School and the Burger King on West Alameda Street. Park at the New Solana Shopping Center. - United Church of Santa Fe: Saturday, April 27 from 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Cleanup at Closson St. Pedestrian Bridge. Participants got to enjoy donuts, coffee, and trash bags. - Lovin’ the River: Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. until 12:00 noon
Participants help make the river trail at Frenchy’s even more beautiful. - Women Who Walk on Water: Saturday, April 27 (details to come)
- Rotary Club of Santa Fe: Saturday, May 4 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
River cleanup between Sandoval and Guadalupe, along De Vargas Park. Meet at Sandoval and the river, next to the skate park. - Three Sisters Collective: Saturday, May 4 from 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. River cleanup at San Ysidro Crossing, in front of Full Circle Farm.
- Santa Fe River Stewards, Sunday, May 5 from 10 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Cleanup near Romero Park.
Other steward teams also hosted private cleanups in their own reaches! We can’t wait to tally up the numbers!
