The Friends of Hudson Parks relies on grants from the community to fund many of our Conservation Projects. The Hudson Garden Club has generously funded numerous projects over the past six years. Below is a listing of many of our current Conservation Projects and others since 2019.
2025 Projects – Restoration Projects generously funded by Hudson Garden Club Grants
A 2022 project funded by Hudson Garden Club removed the invasive species on the side of the marsh area between the southern bridge on the Galloway Loop Trail and the woods entrance. This new $4000 project, fully funded by Hudson Garden Club, involves the restoration of the native habitat through the planting of native bushes, small trees and understory perennials in this critical habitat area. A selection of native plants will be purchased for this area and installed with a combination of volunteer and paid labor.
A $3000 project funded by the Hudson Garden Club will replace native trees in the Hudson Spring Park forested areas that have lost huge trees due to two large storms the past few years. Native smaller understory trees and bushes like Spicebush, Paw Paw and Elderberry, along with larger native trees will be planted by a combination of volunteers and paid labor.
The Friends of Hudson Parks have been working on restoring the Janet Cheeseman Memorial Garden for the last 3 years. FOHP has weeded, mulched and replanted two native Redbuds, three native Spirea bushes and has purchased native perennials for the garden. In addition, OSU Ext. granted FOHP a series of four plantings of native perennials for specialist bees, bumble bees, butterflies and other pollinators that were planted in the garden during the last two years. The new 2025 project, funded by a $1000 grant from the Hudson Garden Club will continue the planting of native flowering forbs as well as native grasses to fill in the garden and create a natural edge of forest pocket meadow that will support native species of insects, birds and other wildlife.