Los Osos, Saint Benedict’s Episcopal Church Tree Planting

Project Description: Lionel donated trees and helped organize a planting to establish the trees in a perimeter around the church.  Located in the windiest part of the county, the trees will eventually break wind for a distance ten times their height.  Catalina cherries, Catalina Island oaks, and Monterey cypress all do well in the near-coastal conditions of the site.  More information about the church can be found at their website.

OCE Work History:

1990’s – original planting

Project Status: estabished

Updates:

Summer 2009 – visited site, counted three catalina cherries, ten Monterey cypress, and five oaks of various species doing well.  -Greg

Los Osos, Clark Valley Organic Farm Tree Donation

Windbreak for Horse Corrals

Project Title: Clark Valley Organic Farm Tree Donation

Project Description: In 2003 Lionel approached the owners of Clark Valley Farm about planting redwood trees for windbreaks alongside their home and horse corrals.   Lionel donated the trees, and the owners planted, mulched and watered them.  Currently, in all, over 100 redwoods were planted on the site to provide privacy screens, wind breaks, and also purify runnoff in one of the property’s ponds.

OCE Work History:

2003 – trees donated

Project Status: established

Updates:

none

Los Osos, Baywood Elementary School Tree Planting

Baywood Elementary

Project Title: Baywood Elementary School Tree Planting

Description: Students, parents, teachers, and Lionel collaborated in the fall of 2003 to plant the schools barren fence line with live oaks, which have now grown tall.  In the fall of 2007, Lionel returned to the site and planted five island oaks in the parking lot dividers.  Since the project began, the school has initiated a dunes restoration project on its grounds, as well as planted nearly two dozen more oaks grown from acorns collected nearby by students and parents.  OCE is currently planning to landscape the parking lot with low-maintenance, drought tolerant natives, simultaneously educating students and parents about the appropriate landscaping.

OCE Work History:

Fall of 2004 – original planting

Fall of 2007 – parking lot planted

6.25.2009 – one island oak replanted

Project Status: original planting established, monitoring parking lot planting, planning landscaping

Updates:

6.25.2009 – We stopped by to mulch and replace one dead island oak and found that the sprinkler system had been repaired.  Old oaks are jumping. – Greg