Join the Santa Fe Watershed Association for Love Your Watershed Day, celebrating the legacy of our Adopt-the-River and Adopt-an-Arroyo programs and the official launch of their next holistic and streamlined incarnation, Adopt Your Watershed!  

 Love Your Watershed Day, also a new chapter for what would be the 18th Love Your River Day, is the perfect time to gather as a watershed community to celebrate together and continue to co-create the future. The main event will include family friendly activities and educational resources from not only SFWA but some of our fantastic community partners (see below). 

In addition to launching Adopt Your Watershed, Love Your Watershed Day will also launch a week of watershed-wide stewardship activities, especially trash cleanup. With our amazing spring runoff and the Living River Pulses, early May is a great time to give some extra love to our river and arroyos by helping clear trash and debris. This spring cleaning can be further inspired by the deep traditions in our watershed, such as the cleaning of our Acequias and the San Ysidro River Blessing on May 15. It is an important reminder that we’re all connected through water!  

Stop by the SFWA station to pick up trash bags for your cleanup, as well as our new QR code stickers that link to the trash pickup forms. This enables us to better track how much trash our volunteers are collecting.  

To help get your creative juices flowing and spread buzz about the event, we’re collecting haikus, sketches, or other creative tributes to our watershed. You can submit via social media or email to amara@santafewatershed.org. We’ll share them digitally and on the day of the event.

Schedule: 

9:00-1:00 at Alto Park – Bring a water bottle, sun protection, and a chair to relax and enjoy the music. Collect supplies for your cleanup.  

 9:00-1:00 Walking Water Cyanotype Prayers (for the Walking Water event in June) 

10:00-11:30 Make fish hats with the FLOW artists (add to the FLOW procession on June 10) 

10:00-11:00 Water-themed yoga class (bring your mat or do it in the grass) 

11:00-11:30 Rain Garden and River Restoration Tour 

12:00-12:30 Rain Garden and River Restoration Tour 

Live Music all day!