The idea is to get some good plant cover established to crowd out the weeds.

The land trust that oversees my conservation easement obtained a $35,000 grant to help the members re-vegetate their flood damaged land. I assume they mean the part that is in the easement, but they said if they meet the needs of the members, they can open the grant money up to the public. I figure maybe I could use some of the grass seed on my non-easement property aka my yard, and seems like as a member, that should put me in line ahead of the world at large.

They gave us about a week's notice in early February to let them know how much we'd need, but there was 10 inches of snow on the ground, so I had to use my pictures and imagination to figure out how much seed I could use on the easement. Our county assessor's office has the GIS map application for tax parcels, and I used that to measure the general area that might take to being reseeded. It's a third of a mile, and I figured a few feet on each side of the stream, came up with about 2 acres.



Someone is coming to look at it within the next couple of weeks and I'll find out what their stance is on where the seed can be used.

This is where I really need it:





I'm not sure if we scrape off that sand the sod under might be okay, I have a feeling it could be.

Overall, I can get by without this grant money, but I figured it was a good idea to get my name in the pot. I'll suggest to the land trust that order more vegetation materials than they need and make them available for sale to members and others at less than retail prices.

Writing this, I hesitated to use the word 'grass' even though I'm talking about seed for native grasses and wildflowers because Colorado is such a tourist destination these days for recreational pot. Because welfare money can be used to buy only food, folks are using their food stamps to buy up the pot-laced brownies and cookies. The state legislature didn't foresee that, but they should have. Assuming they haven't stooped to doping up their kids by feeding them pot brownies, and they were on food stamps for a good reason, this is literally depriving their children of food. On the other hand, serious dopers probably figure there's nothing wrong with feeding marijuana to kids.