Bishop's Peak/Teach Elementary School

Project Title: Bishop’s Peak/Teach Elementary School Landscaping

Description: OCE is currently collaborating with teachers, parents and students from the elementary school to enhance the grounds’ landscaping.  The project includes adding shade along a fence line around the school’s sports field, restoring a steep, denuded slope above north side of the school, planting deciduous trees next to classrooms to aid in warm season cooling and winter heating, and starting a small nursury with students to further education and awareness of native plants.

1.31.2009 – First phase of project undertaken, planting seven Catalina cherries and three live oaks to shade sports fields.

Current Status: monitoring site, planning future plantings, developing educational program

Updates:

6.29.2009 – We will begin working with the school this fall to continue plantings.