Volunteers Build Raised Beds and Plant Seeds at Stream Team's Native Plant Nursery

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12/08/04 WED 18:27 FAX 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN 01001 EUG6N:'E ~~r~s end . Open spice N ~ ~ ~ 1. L wyvw, c. euge ne. or. u s/p~rks 'ti I;ii~. December 8, 2004 CONTACT: ¦ Lorna Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cell phone) ¦ Therese M Picado, Public Information Specialist, Parks and Open Space, 682-4814/682-4800 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Volunteers Build Raised Beds and Plant Seeds at Stream Team's Native Plant Nursery Starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 11, members of First United Methodist Church will help Eugene Stream Team build raised beds and plant seeds at the program's new Native Plant Nursery at Alton Baker Park. The beds will be used to cultivate plants for the ash forest just east of Stewart Pond, the site that the church group adopted through Stream Team last spring. The nursery, where Saturday's work party will take place, is located at the east end of Afton Baker Park' just behind the new Alton Baker Community Gardens off of Day Island Road, and the natural area that the group adopted is located in Bertelsen Nature Park in the West Eugene Wetlands. °The adoption group, which calls themselves the Creation Care Committee/Riparian Redeemers, are using the native plant nursery to do the full circle of restoration--coAecting seeds and taking cuttings, growing them out at the nursery and replanting in a natural area," says Lorna Baldwin, coordinator of Stream Team. The original Native Plant Nursery located near the wastewater treatment plant is overflowing with stock. The new nursery, like its sister nursery near the City's Wastewater Plant, will be volunteer-run and produce native plants for natural areas such as Stewart Pond all over the city. Stream Team provides educational and volunteer opportunities for members of the community, from elementary-age children to college students to older adults, to team about and care for the city's waterways and natural areas. For more information about this and other Stream Team projects and trainings, call 682-4850.