Weed Wrangle® Chattanooga!
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Weed Wrangle® is a one-day, area-wide, volunteer effort to help rescue our public parks and green spaces from non-native invasive species through hands-on removal of especially harmful trees, vines, and flowering plants.
Participating locations list & map
Click the location names below or click the map pins for more information on each location.
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Weed Wrangle® is a grassroots project whose efforts are improved one weed, one volunteer at a time. This project idea emerged in 2015 from discussions between members of The Garden Club of Nashville, a member of The Garden Club of America and the Friends of Warner Parks about the number of invasive weed pulls that were being hosted sporadically around the city of Nashville. The Garden Club of Nashville coordinated efforts of local parks and green spaces to discuss the idea of having a one-day education and eradication event, city-wide, with a media blitz. Years later, this grassroots project is now in multiple states and growing invasively, like a weed!
MISSION
To establish partnerships that connect volunteers and public lands for the purpose of education and eradication of non-native invasive plant species followed with the planned restoration of native plant communities.
VISION
To promote Weed Wrangle® as a nationwide structure for organizing all eradication events on public lands including national, state and city parks with the goals of increasing participation and public awareness about the threats from non-native invasive species, eradicating those plant populations and replacing them with natives.
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Where: 400 Garden Road, Chattanooga, TN 37419
When: TBD
Contact: TBD
How to Register: TBD
Targeting: TBD
Details: TBD
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Where: Greenway Farms Dog Park
When: March 7, 2026; 10 AM - 1 PM
Contact: Kayla Reeves
How to Register: TBD
Targeting: Privet, Honeysuckle, English Ivy
Details: Bring water, closed-toed shoes, gloves (if you have some), tools will be provided
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Where: 1604 Taft Highway, Signal Mountain, TN
When: March 7, 2026; 9 AM - 12 PM
Contact: Beth Myers; 330-256-1472
How to Register: No registration required.
Targeting: English Ivy, Privet, Bittersweet, Burning Bush, and Oriental Bittersweet
Details: Meet at the Welcome Station in the parking lot. Bring gloves, a water bottle, and hand pruners or loppers if you have them.
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Where: Sims Garden Property - 204 McFarland Road, Lookout Mountain, GA, 30750
When: March 7, 2026; 9 AM - 12 PM
Contact: Brad Hutcheson; brad@lookoutmountainconservancy.org
How to Register: Contact Brad Hutcheson at brad@lookoutmountainconservancy.org
Supervised by an expert in invasive weed management, Weed Wrangle® volunteers learn, practice and begin a habit of maintaining an area free of non-native invasive plants and 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.