The Garden’s peninsula is an area where perennials would bring much needed color and beauty. The Garden Committee is in the process of automating the irrigation system on the peninsula. When that work is completed, they plan to begin adding colorful perennials to the part of the peninsula that is viewed from the Flowerree Waterfall Garden.

Ashland Parks Foundation:
Awarded: $900.00
Requested: $2500.00
For: Building materials to construct the North Mountain Park Greenhouse, Lathhouse and Storage Shed Complex.

This area of the park will be used by visiting elementary school children participating in classes on environmental stewardship developed and taught by students from Southern Oregon University. It is part of a large multi-organizational project at the Nature Center within North Mountain Park.

Center of Design for an Aging Society: Awarded: $1,000 Requested: $3,000.00 For: Herbaceous perennial plants for the Portland Memory Garden.

The perennials are to be used in the 12,000 square foot Portland Memory Garden being constructed as part of Ed Benedict Park in SE Portland. It is designed to be easily accessed by persons with physical disabilities and therapeutic for persons with memory impairments.

Columbia County Master Gardener Association: Awarded: $462.00 Requested: $462.00 For: Materials to construct sturdy, waterproof, permanent plant identification signs.

The Columbia County Master Gardeners have built and maintain a demonstration garden for the education of visitors to the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Good signage is deemed a necessity that will enhance their educational efforts for the gardening public.

Environmental Club at Portland State University:
Awarded: $700.00
Requested: $1400.00
For: Purchase of native plants for a newly constructed native plant garden on campus.

The Environmental Club of PSU has been involved in the removal of English Ivy and other invasive, non-native plants on campus. They want to construct a native plant demonstration garden to educate the public about the advantages of using natives in home landscapes.

Growing Gardens:
Awarded: $1,000.00
Requested: $3,050
For: Garden soil, mulch, composters, landscaping materials, and books.

Growing Gardens trains and coordinates volunteers to build and sustain gardens, teach gardening skills and lead workshops in low-income areas of the city. They will build 30 home gardens and 5 apartment gardens in addition to partnering gardens with local grade schools.

Harry’s Mother/SAGE:
Awarded: $800.00
Requested: $2,000.00
For: Garden mulch, herbaceous & woody perennials, garden tools, and landscaping materials to build a wildlife habitat within SAGE’s 2500 sq. ft. garden.

The Student Alliance of Gardening Entrepreneurs uses gardening to foster employment, entrepreneurial and leadership skills among teenage youth. SAGE is an ongoing part within Harry’s Mother - a program for runaway, homeless and inner city at-risk youth.

Insights Teen Parent Program: Awarded: $400.00 Requested: $500.00 For: Seeds, plants, soil, mulch, tools, lumber and books.

Insights has partnered with the Gresham Parks and Recreation Division to start the community garden where Hispanic teen parent participants learn to grow healthy organic foods and prepare nutritious meals for themselves and their families.

Maplewood Elementary School:
Awarded: $500.00
Requested: $500.00
For: Herbaceous perennials, woody perennials, and mulch/soil.

Maplewood Elementary School has a wild wood nature study area adjoining their campus. Student, parents & teachers will be removing invasive non-native plants and restoring the area to its natural state. They plan to build berms which they will plant with native plants and complimentary perennials that will make a natural transition into the wild wood area.

Metro Kids Child Development Center:
Awarded: $575.00
Requested: $1250.00
For: Mulch, herbaceous perennials, woody perennials, tools, seeds and hanging baskets.

The preschool children, parents and teachers of the Joyful Noise Children’s Center in NE Portland want to extend their classroom into the outdoors. They plan to plant and care for a wildlife habitat using perennials, vines, and native plants to attract birds and other wildlife into the habitat. This is phase IV of an ongoing garden construction plan at the school.

Mount St. Joseph Long-Term Care Facility:
Awarded: $900.00
Requested: $1300.00
For: Herbaceous perennial plants.

Mt. St. Joseph serves the residential and healthcare needs of 300+ older adults. They are in their second year of planning and developing an intergenerational therapeutic garden which will be used as horticultural therapy in their program of rehabilitation and healing for the elderly, ill and disabled. The children from the on-site Montessori school will also use the garden along with the seniors. Planting will begin this summer.

Nehalem Elementary School:
Awarded: $600.00
Requested: $600.00
For: Native plants, tools/hardware and books.

The program GROW (Gardening & Replanting Our Watershed) will help to restore the ecological balance around the school. The children are working in cooperation with the Nehalem Water Shed Council to expand and rehabilitate the watershed land adjacent to the school. This environmental project will include removal of blackberries and other non-native plants on the hillside behind the school and reestablishing native plants for erosion control in the watershed. Also a demonstration garden will be built on campus.

Our House of Portland:
Awarded: $1000.00
Requested: $2,000.00
For: Heavy duty professional pruning and stump removal.

Our House of Portland is the only residential care facility in Oregon and southwest Washington providing 24-hour skilled nursing care to men and women with advanced stage AIDS. The grant will be used to hire professional arborists needed to reduce the vegetation of large overgrown trees and shrubs that cover the windows of the facility and block light and air into the resident’s rooms. The grounds keeping is done by a cadre of volunteers from the neighboring Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and students from Jesuit High School.

Sandy Ridge Head Start:
Awarded: $358.77
Requested: $358.77
For: Seeds, compost bins and materials to build a worm composting bin.

Sandy Ridge Head Start serves low-income family children with developmental disabilities and special needs in east Clackamas county. The children have been actively growing vegetables in a few boxed raised beds. The vegetables are used in the hot lunch program that is provided to the children. They plan to expand their growing area, plant more vegetable seeds and provide the needed soil amendments for the beds by making their own compost and worm guano in bins that parents will construct.

Whole Child Montessori School:
Awarded: $300.00
Requested: $300.00
For: Lumber, hardware and soil for new cold frames, and herbaceous perennial plants.

The school wishes to provide the children with cold frames for year around growing of perennials and herbs. The grant will be used to purchased lumber and hardware to build 2 new cold frames. Also topsoil, seeds, and perennials to grow plants for their annual spring plant sale.

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