COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT

PLANET Day of Service

The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) the national lawn and landscape association, hold a nationwide Day of Service on Earth Day. Members of PLANET are organizing volunteer lawn and landscape projects in communities across the country. The first PLANET Day of Service was held on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.

2011- Willamette Valley Hospice, Salem

Willamette Valley Hospice is the only 501c3 non-profit hospice organization in the Salem area. Willamette Valley Hospice focuses on meeting the needs of terminally ill patients and their families; the staff and volunteers passionately believe that everyone should be able to receive hospice care services regardless of their ability to pay. Dennis’ 7 Dees Landscaping has designed a complete landscape plan for a new construction project and will be installing all donated irrigation, plant material, lawn and bark mulch. We'd like to thank our suppliers who donated all the material to this project: Youngblood Nursery, Fisher Farms, Windy Ridge Nursery, Horizon,

2011, Willamette Valley Hospice, before

2011, Willamette Valley Hospice, after

2009-2011- Zenger Farm, SE Portland

Zenger Farm is a nonprofit farm and wetland in outer southeast Portland dedicated to promoting sustainable food systems, environmental stewardship and local economic development through a working urban farm. Friends of Zenger Farm utilize the combination of a 10-acre wetland adjacent to the 6-acre organic farming operation to provide unique experiential learning opportunities for youth, farmers and families in subjects such as sustainable agriculture, wetland ecology, food security, healthy eating and local economic development.

2011 is our third consecutive year of 'Day of Service' here, providing a variety of landscape and irrigation services at the farm helping it continue to teach, inspire and prosper for many years to come.

This year, we worked on a new addition to Zenger farm called the “Furey Field”, which is a 5-acre community garden granted to Zenger Farm by the City of Portland. We installed water connections at individual garden plots and for field crops.

2011, one of many water connections at individual garden

2011, trenching for irrigation at community gardens

2010, trenching new irrigation lines for orchard

2010, using SKAG mower to clear fields

2009, installing drip irrigation to orchard

2009, trenching for orchard irrigation