Robin roosting on nest of 4 eggs in back yard of Kelly Butte House (29 May 2012).
You are invited to join us to see the recent transformation of Wisdom Community Gardens. Please join us at the Open House on Tuesday, June 12 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. Our garden is located at the east foothill of Kelly Butte Natural Area, at the offices of Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. The address is 3203 SE 109thAvenue (Exit 19 east of I-205 between Division and Powell).
Team Gold with AmeriCorps' NCCC team transform the back gardens at Kelly Butte House
Wisdom’s garden project would not have progressed the way it has without the volunteer dedication of our team from AmeriCorps. Eight very special AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps team members. Sydney, Lindsey, Colin, Alex, Terrin, Nathaniel, Laura, and Mary have dedicated the last 2 ½ weeks to the development of our 1/3 acre yard at Kelly Butte House as it turns into an educational and organic heirloom vegetable and ethnobotanical garden.
Our garden plan includes an educational garden in the front, with native ethnobotanical and berry plants, and a Three Sisters garden area. In the back we now have 6 raised heirloom vegetable garden beds, and a second Three Sisters garden area (corns, beans and squash). We are terracing the top of the hillside property where we are continuing to plant additional original species of Native berries, including huckleberry, elderberry, raspberry, strawberry, highbush cranberry, chokecherry, currant, serviceberry, salmonberry, and thimbleberry.
Dan Young, Store Manager at Concentrates, Inc. amends to the soil at Wisdom Community Gardens
We hope you will join us Tuesday at our garden event so we can honor this great NCCC team! Refreshments will be served and tours will be given. We are also looking for volunteers to help us complete and maintain the garden. You can call Rebecca Tait for more info at (503) 775-4014 or e-mail her at volunteer@wisdomoftheelders.org.