Along with conserving land and offering year-round events that inform, entertain and reinforce our organization’s missions, Friends:
- Sherwood Forest Friends and community volunteers have built and opened a Monarch Nursery in Sherwood Forest Community Garden (2026). This nursery provides a safe place for monarch caterpillars to mature into adult butterflies and gives community members an opportunity to learn about these amazing creatures.
Winkie Clark and Deb Rosengrant spearheaded the project and were assisted by volunteers Peter Anderson, Pat Fearheiley, Peggy Hanson, Kerry Sicomo, Steve Smith, Eric Stevenson, Kathy Trappe, Charisse Wakeland, Didi Wilder, Cathy Woolard and Ron Young. Sherwood Forest Friends financed the construction.
Sherwood Forest gardeners have also applied for and received Monarch Way Station status, making a commitment to maintain a habitat that provides resources for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Supports Sherwood Forest’s Nature Nuts programming with annual grants. These grants provide honoraria to experts offering presentations on regional flora, fauna, and environmental issues and research.
- Donated to and secured grants to help build three chimney swift towers in Sherwood Forest (2024, 2021).
- Offers an Earth Day donation to an organization which helps the environment.
- Supported the Sherwood Forest Arboretum with donations of specimens and towards purchasing signage (2024, 2022).
- Donated money for wildflower plantings on the Sherwood Forest golf course (2023).
- Donated funds for furnishings in the newly renovated Robin Hood Center (2023).
- Donated a sound system to the Sherwood Forest Homeowners’ Association (2023).
- Provides a Critter Coloring book by Shirl Thomas