Project Title: Spencer’s Market

Description: OCE donated  island oaks to Spencer’s Market of Morro Bay for use as parking lot trees.  Over the past few years, the empty lot to the north of the market has been revitalized as a collaboration between the markets owners and the local community.  Volunteers helped install a swale which slows, spreads and sinks excess water from the market’s reverse osmosis dispensor.  The market plans to install the first liscensed grey water system in the city, reusing the wash-water from its produce department.  A recycling center now occupies a small corner of the lot.   OCE donated and helped plant many of the trees on site, including island and cork oaks, box elder, Monterey cypress and sycamore.

OCE’s Work History:

2005 - planting

6.13.2009 – tree count

Current Status: Established

Updates:

6.13.2009  – Two parking lot trees started as mere inch-high seedlings have established themselves and stand five feet tall.  The cypress along the northern edge have all survived and are well over six feet high.  A total of 27 trees were counted on the site.