Video: Alexla’s Story
Alexla Perez-Sanchez used to feel that she didn’t have a place in the outdoors, having immigrated to WNC from Mexico as a young child. After her experience in Summer of Service, that’s changed. 100%.
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Project Conserve Launches 2019-2020 Term
Conserving Carolina leads AmeriCorps Project Conserve, which places 31 AmeriCorps members at 18 environmental and conservation partners throughout Western North Carolina.
Summer of Service: Passing On the Gift
Alexla Perez-Sanchez first discovered the beauty and peacefulness of nature in Summer of Service. “It’s soul changing,” she says.
AmeriCorps Stories: Planting Seeds
By Jessie Kerr. Jessie is serving with AmeriCorps Project Conserve, a program of Conserving Carolina, as the Environmental Education Associate with Foothills Equestrian Nature Center...
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A Summer Working in Nature
Ana Martinez wanted to be more outdoorsy. She knew Summer of Service would mean more time outside. It paid. And it would help her get ready for college. But she didn’t go for it, at first. “I was shy,” she says.
Aspiring Wildlife Biologist Finds Community in Summer of Service
Jason Brandyburg joined Conserving Carolina’s Summer of Service in its inaugural year. He had learned of the opportunity through his professor in the Henderson County...
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A Summer of Service
Five young adults give and grow through Conserving Carolina’s new community development initiative
Pollinators Without Borders
“It helps to tickle the toes,” says Kate Lis as she holds up a milkweed plant and works to loosen up its compact root system...
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