Get Involved

Vesper Meadow is a place for people!

We welcome your knowledge, skills, and desires to learn and connect with the landscape. Opportunities range from conducting field research and contributing data to our community science projects, helping at community events, or getting dirty at volunteer workdays. If you have a passion for land management, science or sharing knowledge of the natural world with the public, we’d love to work with you!

If you don’t have time right now and would like to support, please consider a donation to make our education programs available to those who don’t have the means.

 

Sign Up For a Program

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Check out a diverse offering of hands-on learning with practicing biological observation and field skills, wildcrafting and agroforestry, and inspired art and story telling:

Volunteer opportunities

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From our creek and meadow restoration efforts, mentorship programs, and inspired art, Vesper Meadow is powered by volunteers. Check out the opportunities:

Make a Donation

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Thank you for donating today and supporting our education programs. Your support helps to build the culture of stewardship and lasting connections with nature. All donations are tax exempt.

 

Stay tuned for our discoveries, events, and more information on our Community Blog, Facebook, Instagram, and in the news:

Current updates

 
Plein air painting vibes ✨ abound Artists are telling the story of the land renewed, the beauty, the relationships. These paint out events are free and open to everyone. Thanks to @sarahfburns for organizing another great event! We look forward to
Fresh up! “Words to That Effect” by Hannah Bakken Morris. Here’s a small sample of the art installation currently on view at the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve in collaboration with the Schneider Museum of Art’s #ArtBeyo
On this #EndangeredSpeciesDay, meet the Klamath Mardon Skipper: sensitive indicators of wet meadows, and healthy native bunch grass and flower habitats. Join us on June 7th to get involved in Community Monitoring and support their habitat conservat
The bestest, greenest, sweetest time of year… Come join us this coming Sunday for some beaver-based #lowtechprocessbasedrestoration Nothing is more satisfying than working with the land. we will be building off of the beaver-like structures
Work Outside Wednesday (with Willow 🌿✨) was a wonderful success today! From gathering to planting it was a full day and when we were done, another section of the meadow now has willow restored. Grateful for the many hands (and smiles) that make
Sometimes the best validation for your work comes in the form of hand-drawn pictures 😍 We are looking forward to more beaver based restoration work days this summer and fall!
C O M M U N I T Y ☀️🦫🌿 is how land stewardship and restoration tending happens at Vesper Meadow! We build community through education, creativity and art, citizen science, all through hands on experience. We have wide range of volunteer and artis
We’re lookin go back, but mainly looking forward…and upstream! As we spent the day yesterday with partners from the Medford BLM scoping out tributaries to Latgawa Creek for more #lowtechprocessbasedrestoration aka ‘beaver-based&rs
What a day! From sunny skies ☀️ to hail ❄️ willow planting 🍃 to yoga 🧘‍♂️ adult role models with the @mypubliclands BLM environmental educators and students, parents and teachers from the @pinehurstschool from the nearby Greensprings comm
See that in the corner?! It’s the 2nd edition of the Bumble Bees of Southwest Oregon. Many thanks to @beesofcanada for editing this round and @lilialetsch again patiently incorporating edits and layout. Thanks @mustard.press.inc for printing
Observations of the landscape, running water and wet paint, cutting brush and constructing structures in the creek, altering the flow, composing images and capturing the moment, making memories in the meadow. Art and science and stewardship are ble
Did you know that by signing up to volunteer at Vesper Meadow you get 1 free aromatherapy session? It's true! Aroma therapy vouchers are redeemable on the same day and time as volunteering. Your aroma therapists will be the pine trees, fresh air, blo
Gearing up for Saturday morning with @publiclandsshopmedford for a *Forest to Floodplain* event at Vesper Meadow. All are welcome to join for a morning at the intersection of restoration 🍃 and recreation 🏃‍♀️! We will enjoy the scenic preserv
As we roll out our Healing Landscapes program, we'll start sharing Wellness Wednesday posts! One of the ways we're describing the program is, "as we heal the land, the land heals us." Over the last five years of Vesper Meadow, there has n
The 2023 field season is going to new heights! This week, we we honored to host supportive partners from the US Forest Service and Drinking Water Providers Partnership. We took a four hour tour through a very soaking wet meadow, learning a lot in co
Time to spring in to action and get out to the highlands! Join us this coming Saturday 5/6 for a collaborative Vesper Meadow + the Medford Public Lands Store event at the intersection of outdoor recreation and ecological restoration. We will explore