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.
Mary Abercrombie
McKinney Green Gardens Last Saturday Workday Update
Wow, what an incredible Saturday. We had our largest turnout yet at the Green Gardens! 💚 We are so grateful to everyone who came out and made this our largest workday ever. Your generosity of time and spirit creates lasting impacts: healthier soil, thriving pollinators, and the joy of native plants taking root in McKinney. 🌱🐝🌸
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.
Rooted in Paulette: The First Books & Blooms Library Blooms at Green Gardens
Mary Abercrombie, Class of 2020 – Books & Blooms, a new passive engagement program that reimagines Little Free Libraries as vibrant community touchpoints for ecological literacy and neighborhood beauty.
Our very first Books & Blooms installation is now blooming at the Green Gardens of McKinney at Gabe Nesbitt Park, and we couldn’t have asked for a better partner to bring this pilot to life than Paulette Platko, local artist, garden steward, and Texas Master Naturalist with the Blackland Prairie Chapter.
Summer hours for McKinney Green Gardens Last Saturday workday!
Mary Abercrombie wants to share to good news! McKinney Green Gardens is updating its summer hours to help beat the heat.
McKinney Green Gardens Workday: A Community Success!
The McKinney Green Gardens restoration project, a Blackland Prairie Master Naturalists (BPTMN)- approved project and a Chapter grant recipient, experienced a highly successful workday on July 5th.
Leading the charge were two dedicated BPTMN members: Mary Abercrombie, who also works with the City of McKinney Office of Sustainability, and Paulette Platko.
Thank you! Mary Abercrombie
We are celebrating our Blackland Prairie Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists for National Volunteer Month, starting with Mary Abercrombie, Class of 22!
Erwin Park 2025 Prairie in Bloom Guided Tours
Mary Abercrombie, Class of 2022 – These guided tours will highlight Erwin Park’s spring blooms and the role of native plants in water filtration, wildlife support, and air quality improvement, while also emphasizing the importance of preserving our natural greenspaces. I am particularly excited to see the prairie after the controlled burns.
McKinney Gardens – Last Saturday Workday
Join us to tend to the McKinney Green Gardens. Volunteers must supply their own tools, including gloves. Volunteers will pull weeds, spread mulch, and complete other tasks around the garden. This recurring workday will have many learning opportunities about native and drought-tolerant gardening, water conservation, and watershed protection.
City of McKinney Plant Resue!
Mary Abercrombie, Class of 2022 – Wearing her Environmental Outreach & Engagement Coordinator for Environmental Services, Office of Environmental Sustainability, City of McKinney Hat:
We need our Chapter’s help with a Plant Rescue Event.