Our rain garden at Chimacum Schools!

After observing polluted stormwater running from the large parking lot at Chimacum Schools directly into Chimacum Creek, the crew and our local I.P., Aliina Lahti, identified a pollutant-absorbing rain garden as a critical addition to the Chimacum School's campus and an ideal opportunity to educate students about stormwater runoff and possible management techniques. Granted with a week of community service for Martin Luther King day, we decided to design and build such a feature.

Months of planning came to fruition on January 16th, as we broke ground on the garden but were quickly delayed after being hit by a somewhat unexpected snowstorm the following day. Determined to finish, we spent the following Friday putting the finishing touch on Chimacum Schools' newest sustainable design feature.

Months of milestones!

The past three months have been a whirlwind. Booked solid, we have had little time to keep you updated on our projects. November and December were filled with milestones for the crew. We completed our first planting on the Little Quilcene River, hit our one-thousand tree mark at Morse Creek and met one of our arch-enemies, nightshade, at Chimacum Creek.

Elijah pulling nightshade from Chimacum Creek.

The crew after planting tree 1,000 at Morse Creek.

Warren and Carrie tubing at Morse Creek.