Cal Poly Organic Farm

**Update: Nursery temporarily closed while Organic Farm undergoes repurposing**

Project Title: Cal Poly Organic Farm Nursery

Description: Reaching out to Cal Poly students for assistance with planting efforts, and to further educate about native vegetation, OneCoolEarth partnered with the Cal Poly Organic Farm to set up a nursery highly visible and easily accessible to students.  With space for over 400 pots, the nursery adds significant capacity to our planting efforts.  The nurseries location also furthers ties between agriculture and native trees and has already built many positive relationships with Cal Poly and the community: OCE has participated in the farm sponsored Earth Day event, giving away trees to visitors, and we have entered discussions to plant many of the trees on the farm and along field fence lines in the Fall of 2009.   The compost unit across the way has generously donated much of the soil required to complete our potting.

OCE Work History:

Fall 2007 – Established site, moving in weed barrier, shipping crates, pots, soil, and initial plantings.

Earth Day 2007 – Tree Giveaway

Fall 2007 – Planting

Earth Day 2008 – Tree Giveaway

Fall 2008 – Planting

Spring 2010 Planted 50 trees with students from Poly Canyon

Project Status: nursery temporarily closed

Updates:

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