This workshop was a partnership with the Skyline Tavern and the Forest Park Neighborhood Association to plant a native habitat in the parking area of the Tavern. The site is located within the Rock Creek/Tualatin River Watershed.  Northern Red-legged frogs cross Skyline Blvd at this location and lay eggs in a pond on the property. We planted native plants in around the parking lots.  Following the workshop there was a Neighborhood Gathering to learn about the stewardship work being done on the site in support of providing habitat for Red-legged frogs and other native wildlife. With the workshop we improved approximately 1100 square feet of landscaping with over 320 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

This workshop was located in the Fanno Watershed in the Hayhurst Neighborhood. The homeowners have worked hard for several years to remove numerous invasive plants and lay arborist chips. Our volunteers planted Willamette Valley Native Plants in an area that had little understory.  Paths were created using branches from  a recently removed Willow tree, leaving porous arborist chipped pathways through the yard. We improved approximately 650 square feet of landscaping with 75 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

This workshop was located in the Johnson Creek Watershed in the West Portland Park Neighborhood. During this workshop we planted native plants for a White Oak woodland habitat. Seven Doug Fir trees fell on the property during the January 2024 storm, with 4 falling on the house.  While the damage was devastating the homeowners saw this as an opportunity to create an Oak Woodland in their yard. We improved approximately 650 square feet of landscaping with 115 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

This workshop was located in the Johnson Creek Watershed in the Markham Neighborhood. This workshop was the follow on to the grass removal/sheet mulching done with the Westside Watershed Resource Center in August 2024. Here our volunteers planted Willamette Valley Native Plants in the large parking strip in front of a small Condo Complex. We improved approximately 1400 square feet of landscaping with over 110 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

• Lawn Replacement/Sheet Mulching

This mini-workshop was located at the Dragonfly Coffee House in the Willamette Watershed in the NW District Neighborhood. The workshop was a partnership between Stormwater Stars, Westside Watershed Resource Center, Dragonfly Coffee House and Poppy and Finch. Here we planted native plants in the planter box around the outdoor seating area at the Dragonfly Coffee House. 

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

• Contained Planter

This workshop was located in the Johnson Creek Watershed in the Arnold Creek Neighborhood. Our volunteers planted shade loving Willamette Valley Native Plants in an area that had little understory and helped to create a swale to collect some of the driveway runoff.  We improved approximately 800 square feet of landscaping with over 100 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

This workshop was a partnership between Multnomah Neighborhood Association, Multnomah Village Business Association, Westside Watershed Resource Center and Stormwater Stars.  We worked together to plant native plants on a steep slopes as part of the Village Park Project. Village Park is a new community space located in the Fanno Creek Watershed in the Multnomah Neighborhood of SW Portland. We improved approximately 1000 square feet of landscaping close to 180 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Amending soil

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

This workshop was a partnership between Friendly House, the Westside Watershed Resource Center and Stormwater Stars.  We worked together to plant native plants and install porous pathways in an area where the lawn had been removed. Friendly House is a community center located in the Tanner Creek Watershed in the Northwest Neighborhood of Portland. We improved approximately 900 square feet of landscaping with 118 Native Plants.

Practices:

• Lawn Replacement

• Amending soil

• Porous walkways

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

This workshop was a demonstration of the sheet mulching process in the Hayhurst Neighborhood and the Fanno Creek Watershed. The future plans for the site include vegetable garden boxes, porous woodchips walkways and native plants. 

Practices:

• Lawn Replacement

For this workshop our volunteers worked to plant Willamette Valley Native Plants on a bare slope and within a swale in the Fanno Creek Watershed. We improved approximately 700 square feet of landscaping with 176 Willamette Valley Native Plants.

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

Project Description: This workshop focused on lawn replacement in the Hayhurst Neighborhood and the Fanno Creek Watershed.  Prior to the workshop the homeowner had the lawn removed using a sod cutter and amended the soil with compost. A temporary silt fence was installed at the bottom of the slope to prevent material from leaving the site. Due to the moderate slope of the site a jute net erosion control blanket was installed and arborist chips placed over the bare soil to provide slope stability and prevent erosion while the plants are established. During the workshop we planted 117 Willamette Valley Native Plants and installed 155 square feet of cedar chip porous pathway. The project replaced approximately 920 square feet of lawn. 

Practices:

• Lawn replacement

• Soil Amendment

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

• Porous pathway

Project Description: This workshop focused on adding Willamette Valley native plants around the parking lot at the Oregon Society of Artists in the Goose Hollow Neighborhood and the Willamette River Watershed.  Here we focused on removing several large invasive Holly shrubs (prior to the event), a patch of English Ivy and replacing them with Native plants. During the workshop the ivy was pulled, Willamette Valley natives were planted and the site was mulched with compost to amend the soil.  We improved approximately 600 square feet of landscaping with 130 Willamette Valley Native Plants. 

Practices:

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

• Soil Amendment

Project Description: Located in the Willamette River Watershed this was a large lawn replacement workshop at Hopewell House in the Hillsdale Neighborhood. During heavy rainfall events the site had a problem with runoff from the lawn causing ponding at the top of the retaining wall below the lawn area. The goal of the project was to improve infiltration by replacing the lawn with mixture of trees, shrubs and perennials that will allow rainwater to infiltrate rather than becoming runoff.  Approximately 1000 square feet of lawn was removed and the soil amended prior to the event.  During the event we planting over 240 Willamette Valley Native Plants to improve approximately 1200 square feet of landscaping. 

Practices:

• Lawn Replacement

• Soil Amendment

• Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

Project Description: Located in the Fanno Creek Watershed this project involved replacing an area of soggy sod using the sheet mulch method and regetating with native plants.   

Practices:

• •  Lawn Replacement using Sheet Mulching

  • Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

Project Description: Located in the Fanno Creek Watershed this project involved amending the soil in an area that had been depaved by the property owner and planting Native Plants.   

Practices:

• • Depaving

  • Amending & Restoring Soils

  • Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

  • Porous Walkway

Project Description: In this two part project we removed the grass with sheet mulching to remove the grass and replaced with native plants to help improve the Fanno Creek Watershed.   

Practices:

• • Sheet Mulch for Grass Replacement

  • Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants

Project Description: Here grass was removed using shovels and replaced with native plants to help improve the Willamette Watershed.   

Practices:

• • Grass removal with shovels and soil amended with compost

  • Planting Willamette Valley Native Plants