Winter Projects
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| Creating a Worm Bin
Worm bins are composters for your food waste and what better time to build something to make soil for the spring than the winter when you can’t get outdoors the way you’d like? Although they can be built anytime, the winter is a good time because some worm bins are designed to be used indoors – keeping you from going outside to put materials in your compost heap!
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| Building a Nest Box
Nest boxes are best built in the winter while the birds that will use them are away. This is a great activity to build anticipation for the spring. Volunteers will enjoy constructing their bird house and learning how to be a great landlord for their future tenants.
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| Constructing Compost Bins
This is another activity to make you look forward to the growing season. Building a bin to compost your yard and food waste is an optimistic activity and one best done when spirits can be low because of the dark and cold winter. Although this activity is great to keep away cabin fever, it can be done in any season.
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| Writing a Watershed Fact Sheet
Winter is the time for reflection—a quiet time when the chores of the rest of the year have been left behind. Having put down your outdoor restoration tools, it is a good time to pick up another tool: the pen. Writing a watershed fact sheet is a great way to advertise your organization and to inform people why your watershed is worth protecting.
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| Carrying out a Letter Writing Campaign
Another way to fight to protect your watershed is by getting in on the agenda of your elected officials. Winter is the ideal time to mount a letter writing campaign because it can be done indoors and because your elected officials are likely at work – not out campaigning or vacationing! Although winter is a good time to write, it is appropriate anytime an important issue arises.
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