Starting with Earth Day 2023 – Please Join Us! NeighborSpace is hosting a Stream Clean-Up at Tollgate-Wyndham on Saturday, April 22nd, from 10am – 12pm. Address: 10824 Reisterstown Rd, Owings Mills, MD 21117 Parking at Owings Mills Elementary School
All NeighborSpace sites have trees. We keep an eye on them and plant additional trees whenever possible. But some of our sites are truly wooded. Urban forests are often threatened by deer browsing, invasive species, and effects of climate change, such as fungal diseases, and NeighborSpace forests are no exception. Assessing the health of these forests, […]
We here at NeighborSpace have been hard at work bringing the spring spirit to our parks! March is the beginning of event season, dodging rain and getting outside to prepare our parks for plant growth primetime. On March 4th, over 20 friends and neighbors joined us at Levickas Woods in Catonsville for a forest walk […]
In the second installment of our Face Behind the Space series, we would like to introduce a longtime stewardship partner of NeighborSpace of Baltimore County: Dave Fuller, a pillar of the Tollgate-Wyndham community for the past 60 years and a current member of the Tollgate-Wyndham Forest Preserve Board. Dave started working in the community when […]
As shared in September 2021, NeighborSpace was awarded a Battlefield Protection grant from the National Park Service. This grant funds research into the military and societal history of Bear Creek in Dundalk, with the goal of interpreting the 1.25-mile Bear Creek Heritage Trail that is being designed and constructed by NeighborSpace in partnership with the […]
On January 29th, NeighborSpace hosted our first annual Stewardship Luncheon at Bluestone Restaurant in Timonium. Initially conceived as a way to thank our stewardship partners for all of their hard work, the luncheon also fostered communication and cooperation between various park stewards. As Rosa, our stewardship partner at Carroll Watkins park, said, “We had a […]
If you value local open space and support NeighborSpace’s work, please consider joining NeighborSpace staff and Board members at the Baltimore County budget town halls. Please let Phyllis know if you are able to attend (Phyllis@neighborspacebaltimorecounty.org) and if you have any questions. There are a few different ways you can help us advocate for more […]
NeighborSpace is excited to be part of a new project in Dundalk, led by Baltimore County government and in partnership with several other environmental nonprofits. The project’s goal is to improve the Turner Station community’s resilience to the effects of climate change, and will be funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Fish and […]
Hello NeighborSpace community members and affiliates! I am pleased to be the new Program Manager. Thank you to all of the wonderfulstaff and volunteers that have already welcomed me with open arms! I have always had a passion for the outdoors and enjoying all of the wonderfulnatural spaces in Maryland. I have previous experience as […]
In 2019, NeighborSpace acquired a half-acre parcel of land in the historic Dundalk neighborhood of Turner Station. This parcel became the subject of the NeighborSpace 2020 Giving Tuesday campaign. Throughout that campaign, former NeighborSpace Executive Director Barbara Hopkins detailed in three articles (article #1, article #2, and article #3) the complex history of Turner Station […]