Friday, May 22, 2009



FOREST GARDEN at the OUTBACK
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
The forest garden has been a part of the outback since it began, but as students come and go interest in it has been the same. There were four students working on it this year. They had developed a joint independent study course to re-establish this area of the farm. They were doing a lot of sheet mulching with cardboard and plastic to get down the weeds. they has also planted several new trees, pruned old ones, started mushroom cultivation and planted some small areas of vegetables in sunnier areas. It looked like they were off to a great start but still had much to do. This also showed the problem of a wholly student run program where there is no one person linking the farm from out-going and in-coming students.


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