On Saturday, April 27, the Hemlock Restoration Initiative will be one of many organizations and vendors at the seventh annual Montreat Native Plant Sale and Arbor Day celebration! This event runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Moore Field,…
Saturday, April 20, 2019: RiverLink Earth Day Kid’s Festival
On Saturday, April 20, the Hemlock Restoration Initiative will be tabling at the RiverLink Kid’s Festival in celebration of Earth Day! This event will take place at the Salvage Station in Asheville, NC from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. HRI…
Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019: Volunteer Work Day with the Forest Restoration Alliance
Join us on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 as we lend a hand to our partners at the Forest Restoration Alliance. We will be helping out at the FRA greenhouse and research facility near Waynesville, NC. Activities could include transplanting hemlocks, weeding…
Past Events
Click on the links below to learn about our past events: July 28th, 2019: Paddlers Hemlock Health Action Taskforce (PHHAT) hemlock treatment day June 29th, 2019: Transylvania Farmers Market June 23rd, 2019: Guardians of our Troubled Waters film premiere…
February 6th, 2019: Hemlock hike with the Polk Middle School Nature Navigators
On Wednesday, February 6th, HRI AmeriCorps Stewardship and Volunteer Engagement Associate Hanusia Higgins led a hemlock hike for the Polk Middle School “Nature Navigators.” The middle school hiking club learned about the importance of hemlock trees, the invasive hemlock woolly…
February 5th, 2019: OLLI Hemlock Hike with Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
On Tuesday, February 5th, the Hemlock Restoration Initiative and the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) led a hike to explore some beautiful stands of Carolina and eastern Hemlocks in the Fairview Farming Community, where SAHC has helped protect over 1,300…