Last week the UC Davis Public Garden team put the finishing touches on the campus’s first landscape conversion project — the Shields Oak Grove Meadow. Congratulations to everyone involved in this team effort and to project manager Andrew Fulks, Director of the UC Davis Putah Creek Riparian Reserve!
Another pilot conversion project is the Arboretum meadow turf conversion at Shields Oak Grove. This project continues moving forward as well. Initial herbicide treatments took place last week just before the storms moved in. The next step will be a retrofit of the irrigation system, followed by seeding around November 15 with purple needlegrass, a native California grass.
You will be given the skills and materials to carve, paint, and glaze a cove piece to contribute to the ceramic tile surface of a 50-foot curved concrete bench at the entrance to Shields Oak Grove.