War of the Weeds with SWCD and NICHES

Every spring, the invasive plant garlic mustard emerges across our preserves in large numbers. If left unchecked, this weed can change soil chemistry, overtake the forest’s understory, and diminish the beautiful display of native ephemeral wildflowers. With your help, the forest understory will be filled with a diverse mix of plants that provide food and shelter to abundant wildlife.

We are partnering with NICHES land trust to run the War of the Weeds shifts this year at Bachner. This is NICHES single biggest annual volunteer push; if they can manage to fill every volunteer shift it will provide over a thousand volunteer hours during a critically important stewardship window. 

There are two shifts available to work on this day: 10-1, 1-4. Every Volunteer that Signs up for at least 2 shifts before the end of March will receive this years WOTW t-shirt (design below).

If you are interested in checking out the other dates NICHES will be holding the War of the Weeds shift check out 2022 WOTW Garlic mustard pulling shift list: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c49a5ab28a1f8c43-2022

How to Get There

From Crawfordsville, take 32 West Turning left on 325 W (Camp Rotary Rd.) in 1.5 miles Turn right on 250 S (Offield Monument Rd.) In 1.4 miles the parking lot will be on your right The parking lot is actually a Indiana DNR property, Sugar Creek Access Point, parking lot, shared with NICHES Land Trust. (The parking lot entrance sign is for I.DNR. land and makes no mention of Bachner Nature Reserve.  Public visiting NICHES Bacher Reserve are welcome to park in the lot.)