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NEWS 2 Horticulture fundraiser draws community STORY AN D PHOTO BY JEANETTE WRIGHT © CLACKAMAS o PRINT e NEWS EDITOR W ith th e w eather getting warmer, and green things sprouting up everywhere, w hat better way to spend your w eekend th a n planting a garden? The annual Horticulture Club plant sale at Clackam as C om m unity College started on Friday, and people lined up outside d airm o n t Hall to buy student-grow n plants for as low as l dollar for single starts. The sale started atnoon,butbyioa.m people were already lining Up, bringing lawn chairs and smiles, happy to talkw ith other gardeners about plants. A bout 500 people cam e to th e sale and purchased about 14,000 plants, according to Frank Kilders, th e Horticulture Instructor. The plant sale proceeds go towards supporting the horticulture club and student scholarships. Tables, stands and te n ts covered half th e Clairmont parking lot and the walkways in front of th e greenhouses, filled w ith pots and flats of herbs, vegetables, both annual and perennial flowers, fuschias, orn am en tal grasses and shrubs. Booths from the Clackamas Soil and W ater Conservation District an d Clackam as Rivet W ater Providers w ere set up n ex t to th e sidewalk informing buyers about pollinators, invasive and non-invasive plants and water conservation. C h ristine H ollenbeck is p a rt of public education outreach at Clackamas River W ater Providers and has been coming to the sale for iiyears. HoUenbeckfinds the sale a great tim e to talk w ith people about water use. “T h e se a re th e g ard e n in g p e o p le ,” Hollenbeck said, “it ’s like a captive audience; it’s so cool!” Hollenbeck has bought plants from the sale many timesbefore, and finds theplants up -to - par w ith those from high-end greenhouses. “The students here do a really godd job,” Hollenbeck said. Thesalebeingafundraiserisanaddedbonus. “T hat m akes it an o th er really good thing, right?” Hollenbeck said. “Soyoufeelgoodabout w here your m oney w ent. ” Debby Acuardi, owner of Gino’s Restaurant and Bar in Portlandstood in line, knittingwhile waiting for the sale to start. Acuardi buys basil starts from the CCC plant sale for th e low prices and quality of plants. “I canbuy all m y plants here and I don’t have to plant again, they are such hardy plants. I get basil all sum m er h o rn them ,” Acuardi said. This is Acuardi’s fifth year buying from the sale, and was introduced to itby her friend, who died of cancer a fewyears prior. ON THE COVER: Editorial “ Now, it’s kind o f a m em orial: to com e and s h o p an d th in k about her,” Acuardi said. The variety o f plants available is always slightly different. “I love seeing w h en th e r e ’s o n e o r tw o of something,” Acuardi said. “ I’ve found w ild roses here, you know, just kind of those random things. You n ev er know w h a t you’re going to find.” La Donna Cox has been com ing to the plant sale for 16 years, m ostly to buy heirloom tom atoes, h e rb s an d so m etim e s perennials. Cox thinks being able to buy plants and support the d u b is great. "I th in k it’s really im portant,” Cox said. “I know that just w ithin our community, there’sbeena push for sustainability and being able to have m ore h a n d s -o n [experience]. A iotof schools are seeing Held on May 11 and 18, the sale offers a large selection of flowers thebenefitsof gardening, and plants, while also offering an opportunity for members of an d w orking w ith, like, the community to gather and discuss their hobby. chickens.” Some people come to th e sale in search of organic, sustainable plants th a t give back to the environment. Michelle LaVina only buys non-GMO plants and seeds, and prefers to buy local, so th e CCC plant sale is a great place to go. “I know thatthey use local soils and they use- special seeds, so that is im portant to m e and the ability for their plants to propagate newplants, so I lookfor these plants as well,” LaVina said. Growing plants that support the ground and provide for future plants is vital to having a healthy environment, LaVina said. “Our community’s growing and sol thinkit’s im portant to have a strong horticulture society in the area,” LaVina said. Large companies treating seeds and plants and spreading th em throughout the m arket is dangerous to the future oftheearth,said LaVina. “It’s n o ta n organic situation. It’s just killing out soil and drying us out,” LaVina said. “O f course, w e all w ant to live on a farm in a big area w here there’s no water, and So it’s just a whole big conglomerate of stuffw e’re doing to Horticulture fundraiser, by Jonathan Villagomez. Editor-in-Chlef Autumn Berend chiefed@clackamas.edu Managing Editor . Ian Van Orden chiefed@clackamas.edu Copy Editor Victoria Durling copyed@clackamas.edu News Editor Jeanette Wright newsed@clackamas.edu Arts & Culture Editor Jared Preble aced@clackamas.edu Sports Editor Jacob Thompson sportsed@clackamas.edu Photo Editor Jonathan Villagomez photoed@clackamas.edu Multimedia Editor Summer Barraza webeditor@clackamas.edu Ad & design Editor William Farris admgr@clackamas.edu th e earth th a t isn’t good. And w e’re depleting out seed supplies.” Supporting the green future and raisingfunds aren’t th e only benefits of th e sale, though. April C hastain, th e d ep a rtm en t chair o f th e Horticulture Departm ent at OCC, helped oversee th e holding area, w here people could leave their first picks and continue shopping. “Really, it’s kind of a learning experience for students to gettounderstandgrow ingfora certaindate,” Chastain said. “They kind of had to w ork backwards, and kind of decide ‘Okay, well, I w anna be ready by this date, w hen do* I have to seed m y crop, w hen do I transplant it, how do I get it ready by th at date, how do I organize a retail nursery.” “It’s kind of th e byproduct of learning th a t w e’re selling,” Chastain said. Landscape Club will be holding “best of the rest” sales for th eir club a n d to raise funds tow ards th e A nnual Collegiate Landscape Competition. The final sales will be May 11 and 18, from 11 a.m .to3p.m .inClairm ont Hall Greenhouse #2. Reporters 0 c Greyson Mbock G C l C D i (D CZ) o JP 0 Q) Mason Crawley Adviser Crystal Kang crystal.kang@ dackam as.edu The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and pro fessional manner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. ' Thé Clackamas Print is free, but please take only one copy. Any person remov ing our papers in bulk will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. May 16, 2018
