Summer Retrospective Part 3
Photos courtesy of Casey Colley, Kathleen Dennis, Devon Johnson and Mallory Mead.
Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture (OCCUH) is a learning laboratory for sustainable horticultural practices in both rural and peri-urban landscapes. The 6.5 acres on the SW corner of the campus house are used for formal and informal OSU research, riparian restoration, a student CSA program, as well as just plain fun.
This summer, OCCUH invited the OSU Extension Master Gardener (MG) trainees to work on a pilot project renovating and planting beds on the grounds. Kathleen Dennis, the on-site project lead, guided the MG volunteers. Together, the group:
- Weeded, mulched, and added native wildflowers to an upland prairie area
- Renovated a high-profile woody hedgerow, and
- Planted a small hummingbird garden.
