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New Community garden center, Cottage Grove – Work party

  • Start date: 01/11/2025

  • Start time: 10:00 AM

  • End date: 01/11/2025

  • End time: 1:00 PM

Description:

Obsidians volunteers will join others and work in coordination with the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council to build a new community garden center in Cottage Grove. The work will include cleaning old garden structures, moving flower beds, soil, etc. All tools will be provided, so only your enthusiasm and the will to do the work in, for now, unknown weather conditions are required.

Please support program of Huerto de la Familia, now a part of a nonprofit called Plaza de Nuestra Comunidad.
The volunteers need to park in the lot off of R Street which can be accessed from River Road to Harrison Ave.

Photo by: Jean Harris

  • Event Leader: Jean Harris

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-953-0268

  • Event Leader Email: jeanmarieharr@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Stewardship

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Mixed

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2025

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Work gloves, lunch and hydration

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 1

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 20

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Stewardship

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The new community garden center project in Cottage Grove continues to progress toward the spring 2025 opening. Today five Obsidians joined 4 others to work HARD. We shoveled and we raked to spread wonderful compost soil in preparation for the 60 garden beds. What a pleasant group, working on a monumental task and making good progress. With ideal working weather, we enjoyed sun, sprinkles and a beautiful rainbow. This is a fine project that will feed many, many people the produce grown.

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