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New Demonstration Garden Opens at PCC Rock Creek

Monday-Saturday, 7 am-10:30 pm, PCC Rock Creek Campus

Changes at the Washington County Fair Complex required Washington County Master Gardener Association (WCMGA) to shift the demonstration garden to a new location. A partnership with Portland Community College–Rock Creek (PCC-RC)—including students of landscaping, architecture, and design—provides a larger, more accessible space for a new education garden.

Master Gardener™ demonstration and education gardens provide highly trained volunteers an opportunity to offer their expertise and conduct classes and hands-on demonstrations about sustainable gardening practices for youth, adults, families, and beginning and enthusiastic gardeners. For nearly 30 years, WCMGA worked side-by-side with the Tualatin Valley Garden Club to develop and maintain the Washington County Fair Complex garden site.

Each year during the four days of the Washington County Fair, nearly 4,000 visitors toured the garden and got answers to their gardening questions. Children’s camp groups and families explored the Kids Zone, took part in a garden scavenger hunt, and learned how fruits and vegetables are grown. Master Gardeners also provided gardening seminars using the garden’s vignettes to provide plant education on things commonly found in home landscape scenarios. Weed identification was a popular attraction.

As the new education garden at PCC-RC takes shape and propels us into the future, we hope you will visit and watch as a bare plot of ground is transformed into a wide variety of special garden plots. The PCC-RC garden is open to visitors Monday through Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

A new learning opportunity to engage youth and families about gardening and landscape topics is planned for the 2019 Washington County Fair.

Subscribe to the Oregon State University Extension Service Metro Connections newsletter for interesting and useful information and to get the upcoming 2019 “In the Garden Series” class schedule offering many sustainable gardening topics.

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