Weed Wrangle is a national day of clearing invasive species from public spaces, schools, non-profit properties with the help of local volunteers at designated sites that have registered with weedwrangle.org. Weed Wrangle Nashville organizes with The Garden Club of Nashville and offers consulting with local experts to plan and execute the removal of invasive species. Weed Wrangle started in Nashville and has now spread around the country!

Weed Wrangle® is a one-day, volunteer effort with the goal of making a wide-ranging and ongoing collaborative community endeavor to slow or reverse the spread of non-native invasive plants through public education and volunteer plant removal.  Supervised by experts in invasive weed management, Weed Wrangle® volunteers will learn, practice, and begin a habit of maintaining an area free of non-native invasive plants and will encourage replanting with natives in removal areas. By engaging our neighbors and challenging them to take action in their own spaces, we hope to create a movement that will have the greatest impact on the invasive plant population. The Weed Wrangle® sites will be the direct beneficiaries of the project. But equally important is the indirect and long-term benefit. It is clear that a broad-based and ongoing group effort will be key to controlling the spread of invasive plants. State, federal, and private natural resource managers have worked together to reduce populations of non-native invasive plants for years, but often the scale of the cooperative effort is confined by political or land ownership boundaries. Even the diligent, intensive control efforts of land managers won’t be successful in the long run, if invasive plants can find refuge on a neighboring property.

Find out more about why non-native invasive plants are damaging to our ecosystem below: