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Northwest Native Plant and Tree Sale

Sponsored by: Washington County Small Woodlands Association
at Bales Thriftway Store, 17675 SW Farmington Rd., Aloha

Saturday, March 10th 9:00AM to 3:00PM
2012 Plant List

The Washington County Small Woodlands Association has scheduled its eleventh annual Native Plant and Tree Sale for Saturday, March 10th from 9AM to 3PM. The location will be Bales Thriftway Store at 17675 SW Farmington Rd., Aloha. Native plants are adapted to local water, soil and climate conditions and are therefore more disease resistant and less likely to require pesticides or fertilizers. Birds, bees and other native animals and insects thrive where native plants are available.

All plants are certified, quality nursery stock. With almost 2,000 plants, this may be the largest one-day sale of its kind in Oregon. Many species are becoming rare in our Oregon forests and non-existent in developed areas. Check out this year’s new varieties. If you need large quantities of any plant (20 or more) use the contact information below.

Master Woodland Managers, “Naturescaping” experts and Master Gardeners will be available to answer questions about selection, suitability, planting and care. Our famous handout describing characteristics and growing habits of each plant will be available along with landscaping ideas.

All profits from the sale fund scholarships and community education.

For further information, contact Bonnie Shumaker (503)324-7825, bshumaker@coho.net or Ardis Schroeder (503)628-2344



http://wcswa.org/

This event is two years in the making; getting the county permits and permission from neighbors to make this change a real positive move forward.  Lori is a super star in my book!  Bosky Dell Natives is located in West Linn, OR ...Highy recommended. 


Working with VOLUNTEERS, BOSKY DELL NATIVES, WATER ENVIRONMENT SERVICES, SWMMACC, SOLV, and JUDY BLUE HORSE SKELTON

http://www.boskydellnatives.com/Carol's_flyer3.pdf

[size=14pt]We really need your help for this project!
We will be restoring the ditch that runs from Bosky Dell Lane to the Fields Creek Bridge on the downhill side. This project is designed to be a demonstration of how important ditches are. They act as a channel to divert water and direct it downhill to our streams and rivers. I want to bring awareness as to how much ditches can and do help with keeping our rivers clean by trapping sedimentation and impurities that travel downhill, off the pavement with the rain. We want to plant this ditch with lots of sedges, rushes, ferns and wildflowers. The idea is that it will be beneficial to wildlife, beautiful for people to see as they drive down the road, protect fish and wildlife, and help clean up our rivers and streams. These plants have a big job ahead of them to trap all of these impurities and protect the streams and rivers. With years of filtering and collecting debris, the lower end of the ditch may need to be scooped out and replanted to enable it to continue to cleanse the water path. If this needs to be done, it's just a good indicator as to how beneficial the plants were in protecting the stream. I hope that this ditch project will educate the public and inspire others to do what they can, with ditches everywhere. Phase 1 will be the removal of invasive species, while phase 2 (this fall) will be a follow up removal of invasive species that snuck back in, and planting the ditch. DON'T DITCH THE DITCH. Please help in any way if you can! We will be serving some snacks and at the end of the party we will be giving thanks for the opportunity to restore the ditch.  Please show up in comfortable clothes you can work in and get dirty, and please call me at 503-638-5945 if you have any questions. It is volunteers like you that help us keep our rivers and streams healthy and clean![/size]

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23311 SW Bosky Dell Lane

West Linn, Oregon

(LOCATED AT THE END OF BOSKY DELL, WE ARE NOT THE NURSEY AT THE INTERSECTION OF BOSKY DELL AND BORLAND)

503-638-5945

fax 503-638-8047

Hours: Monday-Saturday 9 AM - 5 PM

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Paul,

Scholls is our little unincorporated sub-rural community, SW of Portland.
Lots of nuts, berries and apples, a general store, a church, an active grange, the local bar (complete with a full grown hog out back)  and the historic South Store Cafe.  (There was a North Store, now the rebuilt general store since the original burnt to the ground.)  The South Store Cafe used to be the South Store.  I remember it as a child, creaky floor boards and dusty items on the shelves.  

http://southstorecafe.com/


There is also Gotter Prairie Natural Area, a wetland restoration project underway which might be a nice place to stretch your legs or just sit and observe.  Gotter Prairie is an uncommon, wet prairie habitat and a home to rare Pacific Northwest species. Chorus frog, Pacific salamander; Red-osier dogwood, Gary oak; White-breasted nuthatch and Yellow-breasted Chat are just a few of the species living at Gotter Prairie.  

http://www.tualatinriverkeepers.org/restoration.html

And course there is the biodynamic vineyard nearby that sold a good portion of its land to developers as well a a bunch of other traditional wineries.  My neighbor makes fruit wine so maybe you'd prefer that.

You can camp in the woods, in the field or use the spare bedroom
Darts, music and conversation in the Soup Caves?


Risky, I know... but probably beats a lame hotel room.


I've stayed in the Poe room as shown in the pictures above, and it was definitely a memorable one!  I'm sorry to hear that it has been changed.

It sounds like however it works out, it'll be a fun vacation!

Since you're online anyway, you might as well access interesting music.

Check radio23.org

And especially 'The in Memory of John Peel' show, every Friday 12 noon PST
By host Zaph Mann!

It's broadcast from our creative space, The Soup Caves!!!

Based in Portland, Oregon

Paul Wheaton, when are you going to come visit us out in Scholls?
A lot has happened here over the last year since my newest and coolest neighbor moved in.
We want you to see it. You can call it 'Portland permie moves to Scholls'.


What-a-ya say?
     

Just so everyone knows, that's not my work...someone sent me that photo they took in Baja.

Make do with what you have on hand...

Ok, so these hogs have lived here for about five months now, are well bonded with each other and gaining in size and weight.  They let us know when it's time to rotate them to another pasture by 'escaping' their enclosure.  It's not currently electrified due to the amount of maintenance it takes to keep the lush vegetative growth off of the netting.  I'm buried in my work as it is and don't really want to shock the critters in the first place.  If they need new ground, they'll let us know.  The boar is the one that lifts the net with his snout and passes to the other side to eat as he pleases.  The cutest part is that he doesn't go back the way he came.  Instead he opts get back through the barn and lays down in the dark corridor right next to the door and waits for someone to let him back in with his lady friend, at which point they nestle down together, nose to nose, in their bed of straw. 

I'd rather not admit it but, the other day killing them or at least selling, crossed my mind.  Unfortunately,  a bit of land they access has a very high water table, meaning it is very wet...especially with all the rain we've received lately.   And that means EASY rooting.   It's hard to watch land be subjected to such disturbance (rooting).  One needs to realign one's thinking in such cases.  Perhaps we need to make a permanent wallow there or a shallow pond and accept the change.  Perhaps they need to be moved daily in that area and the disturbed ground sowed immediately with clover or some other such forage.  Or they ought not be allowed to access it until the ground dries later in the year.  They remain easy to coax and lure with a shake grain in a can.

In an area just off of their shelter stood a decent collection of horse manure 2 years old, not entirely decomposed but well on its way.  Our furry friends rooted all through it, turning it, leveling it, exposing worms for the chickens and making a decent bed into which was transplanted leeks and celery as well as a sowing of kale and sunflowers.  We have growth!

Guinea Hogs eat a lot of creeping buttercup, pulling in out by its roots and eating the entire plant, as well as just eating the leaves.  It's quite prevalent here in our low wet areas.  We are quite pleased with the hogs for this.  It's the first year that they've had access to the pastures where Ranunculus grows and so we'll see where this takes us.  I'll continue to seed with a diverse mix in hopes of establishing some competitor.  What I really want is a Kratergarten but haven't summoned the courage or permits to go through with it.  That is what the esteemed Sepp Holzer recommended we do... give the water a place to go.

Is anyone out there deliberately selecting for roosters with the least amount of crowing, generation after generation?  The urban folks could keep their own lines going and not need to buy chicks every year.