NEWS & EVENTS
To view the Work Party Schedule – Click Work Party Schedule
For a site overview video by TJ Thran of Endless Decade, LLC – Click TP Overview 3/11/18
EVENTS
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Join us for a Garlic Mustard pull. 9 AM-Noon.
Meet at the upper parking lot. You can take some Garlic Mustard home and make pesto or salad! http://eattheinvaders.org/garlic-mustard/
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Attention Taylor Point Volunteers! We will be working in the successional field and the parking circle on Saturday December 1, 2018 from 9AM to NOON. Please come join in the fun! Hope to see you there!
Join us this Saturday, November 24, 2018 from 9AM to NOON to tackle the Greenbrier as well as the Morrow’s Honeysuckle. We’ll meet at the upper parking lot and we have tools for you to use.
Please come out to Taylor Point and work off some of those Thanksgiving calories. You can help Jamestown’s native plants by removing competing invasive species. Bring your holiday house guests too! Fun for all. Hope to see you there!
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Attention Taylor Point Volunteers! This Saturday, November 17, we will cut Greenbrier and Porcelain Berry at the Taylor Point Nature Preserve from 9AM-NOON. We’ll meet at the upper parking lot. Please join us!
Due to the weather forecast, tomorrow’s ( 11/3/18 ) work party has been cancelled. Our next work party is scheduled for Saturday, 11/17/18, from 9AM to NOON. Hope to see you there!
Attention Taylor Point Volunteers! This Saturday, November 3, we plan to cut Greenbrier and Porcelain Berry at the Taylor Point Nature Preserve from 9AM-NOON. We’ll meet at the upper parking lot. Please join us! Fun for all!
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9AM – Noon, Upper parking Lot.
See you there! Bring the whole family!
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Attention Taylor Point Stalwarts!
Tomorrow is forecast to be gorgeous and a perfect day for lopping and clipping! Come see the remarkable progress we have made in the successional field. Bring your favorite loppers or use ours. We will continue our assault on the Green Briar and the Porcelain Berry in pursuit of our effort to eliminate invasive species at Taylor Point! See you there!!
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Join us Saturday starting at 8 AM at the upper parking lot. We will continue our work in the successional field – which is looking really good these days! We also will be supporting Save the Bay and the Jamestown Girl Scouts in the International Coastal Clean up at Potter Cove beginning at 10 AM ( Please see Special Event Alert below for details. ) Fun for all! Hope to see you there!
Thanks to all who came out on Saturday ( 9/8/18 ) to resume our Autumn/Winter work schedule. The group did a great job weed-whacking the Successional Field and cutting back more Greenbrier to free the Blueberry shrubs. The volunteers also worked hard removing invasive plants from the upper parking circle. Great job!
Special Event Alert-
2018 International Coastal Cleanup!
Join us at Taylor Point and Potter Cove on Saturday, September 22 from 10 AM – NOON to support Save the Bay and the Jamestown Girl Scouts in the 2018 INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP. This event is the world’s largest volunteer stewardship initiative for our beaches and our oceans! The International Coastal Cleanup involves citizens from throughout the world who remove trash from shorelines, document what they find, and publish an annual report.
For more information go to:http://www.savebay.org/icc.
Please come join us and help to Save Our Bay!
WORK PARTY CANCELLATION ALERT! It’s too darn hot! ( A ‘feels like’ temp of 98 is just too hot! ) No work day this week!
Our next work party? Saturday, September 8, from 9AM – NOON
Stay cool….
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Join us this Thursday afternoon, August 2, from 4 – 7PM. We will meet
in the upper parking lot. You may want to try to come on time at 4PM because the URI Master Gardeners will give a mini course in using “Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide”, after which we will take to the field and apply our lessons learned. Pizza and a swim will follow for those inclined. See you there!
Thanks to all who came out to our first Thursday work party of the season!
Cheers to lots of progress in the parking circle and in the successional field, and to more and more liberated blueberry bushes! Special thanks to the Master Gardeners for bringing delicious pizza for the hungry crew! Great work, Team!
4 PM – 7PM, JULY 19th, 2018
Attention Taylor Point Fans! We are holding summer work parties on several Thursdays as we continue work in the successional field and elsewhere. You won’t want to miss these events! Following the work effort, the Master Gardeners will provide the team with a light dinner (sandwiches, wraps or pizza) and we encourage you to consider cooling off with a swim in Potter’s Cove afterwards. FUN FOR ALL! See you there!
Please join us Saturday, July 7, at the upper parking lot. We plan to cut re-sprouting Greenbrier in the successional field and remove Greenbrier growing alongside the blueberry bushes. We also plan to cut Oriental Bittersweet vines in the Black Cherry Woodland. This promises to be a fun and satisfying work day! We will be there from 9 AM until Noon! See you there!
Due to the rain today, the work party for June 23 has been cancelled. Please check back for more information on possible work party rescheduling for later this week. Stay tuned.
WORK PARTY ALERT!This Saturday, June 23.
Join us at the upper parking lot 9AM- NOON to cut more of the Greenbrier that is smothering the Highbush Blueberries and to cut Oriental Bittersweet that is strangling the native Black Cherry trees.
It is okay to come late or leave early. Bring the whole family. We have loppers and pruners!
FUN!SATISFYING! INVIGORATING!
Taylor Point!See you there!
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WORK PARTY ALERT!
SATURDAY June 9 : 9AM-NOON
Join us this Saturday! We will meet in the Upper Parking Lot and plan to cut more Greenbrier in the Successional Field; cage the small Arrowwood plants growing in the Successional Field; cut access paths so we can get to the Bittersweet; and pull Morrow’s Honeysuckle stumps.
Fun for all! See you there!
THANKS TO OUR STALWART TPRA VOLUNTEERS WHO CAME TO OUR TAYLOR POINT WORK PARTY ON MAY 26!
YOU DID GREAT WORK!
Thanks for pulling bushels of Garlic Mustard, attacking the Greenbrier in the Successional Field, and whacking back those two aggressive patches of Black Swallowwort! Hopefully if we continue to cut it back to the ground – maybe 5 or 6 times a year – it won’t be able to produce seeds, and may finally be vanquished in 4 or 5 years! Yes! We can do it! And as for that Garlic Mustard… Don’t forget to use it wisely! Click here for Garlic Mustard Recipes!
This Saturday morning, May 26, please join TRPA and the URI Master Gardeners in removing invasive plants at the Taylor Point Nature Preserve. We plan to rescue a grove of Highbush Blueberry from the pernicious Greenbrier, pull Garlic Mustard, remove Glossy Buckthorn, and root prune Highbush Blueberry in preparation for Fall transplanting.
We will meet at 9:00 AM near the upper parking lot and will work until NOON. It’s OK to come late or leave early. We have plenty of loppers and clippers.
The URI Master Gardeners invite you to join them for Project Open House on Saturday June 23rd from 9AM to 1PM. If you enjoy gardening, you do not want to miss Project Open House!On June 23rd, the URI Master Gardeners will host an open house of their demonstration gardens in bloom to celebrate National Pollinator Week. During the event, visitors are invited to tour more than 20 Rhode Island gardens designed and tended by URI Master Gardener volunteers. During this free event, experienced URI Master Gardeners will describe and explain environmentally-sound gardening practices.
For more information, please visit: Project Open House
WORK PARTY ALERT!!
SATURDAY, APRIL 28th
9 AM to NOON!!
Come join us and help pull Garlic Mustard, rescue the High Bush Blueberry from the Greenbriar, and dig up some invasive Lesser Celandine.
It is fine to come late or leave early ( if you can tear yourself away once you begin working and having fun! )
Look for the Master Gardeners’ tent near the upper parking lot! See you there! We have tools!
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THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!
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Thanks to all who came out on Saturday! Good work Team!
As reported by Dennis… One group spread wood chips around the Shadbush we planted on March 31, removed invasive shrubs, honeysuckle stumps, and Lesser Celandine.
Another group cleared more Greenbrier from the Winged Sumac trees in the Successional Field.
Meanwhile, a third group worked on the stairs to Potter Cove Beach and filled in the eroding path next to the steps with topsoil in preparation for planting on April 28. This group also pulled out a newly-discovered patch of invasive Garlic Mustard.
Lots of plants at Taylor Point are budding and will be in flower soon. Thanks to all for your hard work, and thanks also to the Town Public Works Department for chipping the brush we pulled from the Successional Field and for delivering both stone dust and topsoil.
Come one ! Come all!!
We will clear Greenbrier,
cut invasive Honeysuckle,
pull Garlic Mustard, and
plant native Virginia Rose!
Join us at the
Upper Parking Lot: 9AM.
FUN!
SATISFYING!!
INVIGORATING!!!
Taylor Point!
WORK PARTY ALERT — Saturday morning, March 31, 2018!
TPRA volunteers will plant Shadbush to replace the invasive vegetation we removed over the winter around the Taylor Point upper parking area.
We will meet at 9 AM and work until NOON.
Everyone is welcome! Meet us at the north end of Bay View Drive.
It’s OK to come late or leave early.
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Enjoy!
Nice work TJ!
Nice work TPRA Volunteers!
Nice work Master Gardeners!
ST PATRICK’S DAY WORK PARTY ALERT!
Saturday, March 17, 2018 9AM-NOON
This Saturday morning, March 17, we will be out in full force working in the successional field – provided the snow has melted sufficiently by Saturday morning.
Please join us! Volunteers will meet at the Upper Parking Lot at the north end of Bay View Drive. It’s okay to come late or leave early. Please bring work gloves. Tools will be available.
See you there!
WORK PARTY ALERT!
Attention Master Gardeners and Taylor Point Volunteers!
Our next work party will be Saturday, February 17,
9AM until NOON!
Please join us in the Upper Parking Lot.
FUN FOR ALL!
See you there!
Attention Taylor Point Volunteers and Master Gardeners!
Due to the cold weather forecast,
TPRA has canceled Saturday’s 2/3/18 work party.
Nevertheless, Dennis does plan to brave the cold and work at Taylor Point Saturday and encourages all hardy souls to join him.
The usual warm drinks and snacks won’t be available though – so please plan accordingly.
ATTENTION ALL MASTER GARDENERS AND ALL TAYLOR POINT VOLUNTEERS!
WORK PARTY ALERT!
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2018.
Meet us at 9AM at the Upper Lot
Help Slay The Greenbrier in the Successional Field!
FUN!
SATISFYING!!
INVIGORATING!!!
TAYLOR POINT!!!!
See you there!
Attention Taylor Point Volunteers and Master Gardeners!
Join in on Saturday, JANUARY 20, 2018 from 9AM to 12PM. Clip and lop some Greenbrier to welcome in the New Year!
“RISING SEAS – HOW WILL JAMESTOWN RESPOND?”
A Presentation by Grover Fugate
Wednesday, January 10, 6:30 PM at the Jamestown Library.
Grover Fugate, Executive Director of the RI CRMC, has led the development of Rhode Island’s coastal policies and programs for 32 years. He will discuss the Council’s new Shoreline Change Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) and the effects of climate change on Rhode Island and the Jamestown shoreline.
We will discuss optional responses to this threat and strategies for protecting our coastal infrastructure.
See you there!
Attention all Taylor Point Volunteers and our Master Gardener team!
The January 6, 2018 workday has been cancelled.
Check back for updates and please stay warm and safe! Happy New Year!
December 30, 2017 is our NEXT WORK PARTY!
December 30 will be your last chance to join in the work party fun at Taylor Point until next year! You won’t want to miss it. 9AM – NOON, Saturday. Meet at the upper parking lot with your loppers and say good bye to the old year … and to some Morrow’s Honeysuckle and some Greenbrier!
See you there!
Oh, and by the way, GREAT WORK Master Gardeners and other hardy souls who came out in the snow and cold to free the High Bush Blueberry from the thorny, menacing Greenbrier last Saturday! Taylor Point looks especially lovely in the snow. Many thanks!
JOIN IN THE FUN ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2017 for our next Volunteer Work Party!
We will meet at 9AM in the upper parking lot. Look for the white tent and Sign-in Table. Feel free to arrive late or leave early. Bring your whole family! This Saturday we will begin to prepare the area for revegetation in the Spring!
to all who came out to continue work near the upper parking lot and to create a new path from the drive northward! Great turnout! Great team! Special thanks to the Master Gardeners! And hats off to the massive hawk!
and thanks to Dennis for sharing his favorite reference books with us!
VOLUNTEER WORK PARTY,
Saturday, 12/2/17
Upper Parking Lot
9 AM-NOON
JOIN US! BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY!
TPRA is making good progress removing invasive plants around the upper parking area at Taylor Point. On Saturday, December 2nd, from 9 AM until NOON, we will meet at the upper parking lot to continue this work . Everyone is welcome to join us!
THANKS to all who came out to take on the Morrow’s Honeysuckle at Taylor Point on Saturday!
We really accomplished a lot! Good work, Team! Special thanks to the URI Master Gardeners. Inspired! Inspiring!!
Thank you!
NEWS
CRMC Awards TPRA Path and Habitat Restoration Grant
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TPRA is pleased to announce that the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) has awarded us a $4800 grant through the Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Trust Fund. Under this project TPRA will conduct three tasks:
Task 1. Create a rehabilitation plan for the badly-eroded footpath from the upper parking area to the Taylor Point Cliffs. Under this task we will design a drainage strategy to prevent future erosion of the path, and create a plan to establish low-maintenance trailside meadows of native grasses and forbs. We will do this planning and design work between February and October 2018.
Task 2. Design a restoration plan for the Phragmites Marsh, the Wooded Swamp, and the Back Beach subsections of Potter Cove Beach. We will conduct this design work between April and December 2018.
Task 3. Purchase native Rhode Island plants to plant in areas that we have cleared of invasive vegetation in the Black Cherry Woodland, Taylor Point Cliffs, and in specified areas on Potter Cove Beach. We plan to use fencing to protect the new plants from damage by deer and people. We will plant these native species in the spring and fall of 2018.
Our approach is entirely consistent with the State Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Strategy for coastal buffers. This strategy encourages efforts to recreate or approximate the biological, geological and physical conditions that existed prior to human disturbance and can involve controlling non-native invasive plants and/or re-vegetating areas with native species. We are grateful for the guidance and support of the CRMC in this aspect of our ten-year program to Restore Taylor Point.
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The Vivian J. Palmieri Trust Awards TPRA $15,000 Grant
On December 27, 2017, The Trustees of Vivian Palmieri’s Charitable Trust awarded the Taylor Point Restoration Association ( TPRA ) $15,000 to support the restoration project planned for the Potter Cove Beach area. The Association recognizes this area as a key priority in the overall restoration of Taylor Point. We plan to remove invasive species from the back beach, the wetlands and the wooded swamp along Potter Cove Beach and revegetate with native species, including some native rose species.
As this area is certain to be affected by sea level rise, one key challenge we face is that of developing a planting strategy that considers and can accommodate the changing species composition that will be driven largely by future rising seas and storms. This grant will enable us to enlist experts to help guide our restoration planning and it also will support the purchase of native stock.
TPRA is most grateful to the Vivian J. Palmieri Trust for supporting our efforts.
Taylor Point Restoration Program Accepted as a Demonstration Project for the URI Master Gardener Program
TPRA is pleased to announce that our restoration work is now a part of the URI Master Gardener Demonstration Program. This program includes 36 demonstration projects throughout Rhode Island including the Norman Bird Sanctuary, Slater Mill, Canonchet Farm Habitat Restoration, and the Roger Williams Park Garden and Produce Demonstration Program, among others. The mission of URI’s Master Gardener Program is to educate people in environmentally sound horticulture practices, thus encouraging citizens to adopt these methods in their own home gardens. The Master Gardener Program estimates that in 2016, with its team of more than 600 trained volunteer educators, the program reached out to between 15,000 and 20,000 Rhode Island residents! Now Jamestowners can be a part of this learning experience right at Taylor Point!
Jamestown’s Master Gardeners Kitty Wineberg, Nadine Mendelsohn, and Rosemary Smith are leading the Taylor Point Master Gardener Demonstration Project. They devise and deliver training and guidance in partnership with TPRA at our work parties, and lead discussions during and after those events to address best practices and principles of habitat restoration. As a recipient of the top prize in the International Master Gardener Search for Excellence for its School Garden Mentor Program, the URI program is a recognized leader in using gardens and preserves creatively as outdoor classrooms to promote science-based environmental learning among school children. Perhaps the Lawn Avenue and Melrose Schools will soon take the Taylor Point tour, and bring the lessons home to their family gardens!
Join TPRA and our Master Gardeners at our frequent work parties. The schedule of events is posted here and also on our “Restore Taylor Point” Facebook Page! See you there!