Check out these photos from our Last Saturday Workday in Green Gardens at Gabe Nesbitt Park! We offer hands-on opportunities focused on native and drought-tolerant gardening, composting, water conservation, and general garden maintenance.
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Last Saturday Workday – Green Gardens at Gabe Nesbitt Park
Join us for the Last Saturday Workday in Green Gardens at Gabe Nesbitt Park! We offer hands-on opportunities focused on native and drought-tolerant gardening, composting, water conservation, and general garden maintenance.
Community Engagement Spring 2026 Events
Ready to make an impact? 🦋 Community Engagement Director Tina Burke has already lined up a season full of outreach, from McKinney plant swaps to “Night on the Prairie” in Lucas. We’re looking for volunteers to join the team and help us share our love for the Blackland Prairie.
Experiencing Nature through Eco Explorers
Guiding Girl Scouts through our Eco Explorer program creates “Aha!” moments through hands-on discovery. From tracking wildlife to tasting sumac, BPTMN volunteers help youth earn badges while fostering deep conservation values. With registrations filling fast, your help “ices the cake” for these new environmental stewards.
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From LocalProfile: Grassroots Revival: Frisco’s Monarch View Park Becomes A Beacon For Native Restoration
In Northwest Frisco, the Blackland Prairie Restoration Project is transforming Monarch View Park from manicured turf into a thriving native landscape. Over the past year, a partnership between Play Frisco, H-E-B, and the Blackland Prairie Texas Master Naturalists has united volunteers to plant over 5,000 native plants across nearly 100 species. This community-driven effort is not only rebuilding soil health but serving as a new model for future habitat restoration throughout the city.
We NEED you to help us transplant over 400+ Native Plants!
Join us on Saturday, October 25th at McKinney Green Gardens in Gabe Nesbitt Park for a special workday! We’ll be transplanting over 400 native plants, and we’d love your help to make it happen.
Monarch View Park Planting
Join us to help create a thriving native plant pollinator garden! We’ll be installing 400+ native plants and removing weeds to support local habitat.
Thursday 9/18 – Plano Oak Point Park Plant Rescue
If you need plants for your own project, this is the perfect opportunity—join us on Thursday, September 18th at 8:00 – 11:00 AM! There’s an excellent supply of green milkweed, along with several other native species.
McKinney Last Saturday Workday Update
Volunteers accomplished so much in just a few hours: mulching under the wax myrtles, clearing weeds from the decomposed granite paths and garden beds, creating native seed packets for distribution, and helping prep the site for our upcoming Make a Difference Day Planting in October.
🌿 Eco Explorers Needs You!
Texas Master Naturalists—help inspire girls K–12 to explore and love nature. Through nature walks, iNaturalist, and Girl Scout badge programs, we share our chapter’s deep knowledge of the natural world. Volunteers bring this learning to life. Your experience and enthusiasm make all the difference—join us in growing the next generation of nature stewards.