2026 Garlic Mustard Pull

Garlic mustard pull season kickoff on Saturday, April 25 at 10am

Once again, Parkview Hills is inviting community members to join the Natural Areas Stewardship Committee in our annual Spring Garlic Mustard Pull campaign. Please join us on Saturday April 25 at 10am in the clubhouse parking lot for coffee and donut holes.

Here, you can meet like-minded community members and learn how to identify and pull garlic mustard. If you have time, hit the trails with friends old and new after the social. We will pull garlic mustard for the next 4-6 weeks. We hope you will, too. We will be out as a group every Saturday at 10am through May. Watch for weekly announcements on locations. Garlic mustard is an aggressive, invasive plant growing in our natural areas, yards, and gardens. Wildlife do not eat garlic mustard. Our native flowers, like Trillium and Jack-in-the-Pulpit, will proliferate when not crowded out by garlic mustard.

Here is how to pull garlic mustard in three simple steps:

Walk the trails and look for the garlic mustard signs along the trail. Grab a bag from the station or bring your own. Pulling garlic mustard is easy! Low and slow is the key. Pull the plant from the roots and put the flowering ends deep into your bag. You can stop hundreds of new garlic mustard plants from growing by removing one plant. Remember to tie the bag shut when you finish so the seeds do not escape. Leave the bag on the side of the trail or next to one of the garlic mustard pull stations for collection and counting. The clubhouse staff will count, collect, and dispose of the filled bags.