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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Impacts of service to WNC are deeper than they appear
Project Conserve completes another year of service in 2015 Caroline Ketcham, left, and Chelsea Rath with a monarch butterfly found on conserved land. The AmeriCorps...
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