Oregon Tilth OLC Peer Learning Session - Reed College, Portland, OR

[dave...@tilth.org]

Organic Land Care at Reed College - Peer Learning Session

Wednesday, September 18th

11:30am - 1:30pm

 

Please join us for a no-cost peer learning session at Reed College. OLCP's Shane Kaser and Zac Perry will lead a tour of the campus, showing some of the organic land care highlights, including low maintenance landscapes, wildlife restoration, and more. Here is how Shane poetically describes campus management:

 

"Ecology-based, low-tech maintenance program focused on

carbon cycling, soil health, rainwater catchment, progressive mulching,
and sound planting design.

Miniature rain-gardens are chained together, and mingled with
nurse-logs, nitrogen-fixers, natives, edibles, and others.

Clover, veronica, heal-all, and other well-behaved rogues form
attractive, weed-busting groundcovers as they wander amongst the ankles
of hardy perennials, and reseed against inevitable disturbances of the
canopy.

Hidden shrub-bed compost piles capture autumn leaves and pruning debris
while building a thick layer of humus on the soil surface, and providing
habitat for birds, insects, earthworms, fungi and other microbes.

The maintenance program rarely requires the transportation of heavy
and/or bulky materials, and largely relies on a custom-built
bike-trailer for routine maintenance activities."

 

 

Directions:

Meet at the top of Botsford Drive off of SE 28th Ave. between Woodstock
Blvd. and Steele St.

Parking is available in Reed's west parking lot at the bottom of Botsford.

See campus map at http://www.reed.edu/facilities_services/reed_static_map.html.

 

 

Thanks. Please let me know if you plan to attend.

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Dave Alba
Organic Land Care Program Manager, Oregon Tilth
dave...@tilth.org
www.tilth.org
541.745.8798

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