Friends of Honey Creek was founded in 2021 by friends and neighbors Angi and Allison, who had previously collaborated at Wilson School in Wauwatosa. Angi, the designer of the Wilson/WSTEM butterfly garden at the corner of Honey Creek Parkway and Portland Ave., had the idea of expanding school efforts at their outdoor classroom into a full-fledged invasive plant removal brigade. She got Allison and her organizational skills on board; they joined up with the Park People, and the rest is history.

Friends of Honey Creek operates with a small group of volunteers working steadily in collaboration with the County of Milwaukee and the Park People.  We believe firmly that slow and steady-- leaving the woods every week better than we found it-- is a viable model for Friends groups who may be unable to raise large number of volunteers. In this way we have cleared over 20 acres of woody invasives in 4 short years and have been able to maintain those areas from year to year. 

Friends of Honey Creek is indebted to a number of individuals over the years. We thank them for their efforts.