Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Garden Harvest October 19, 2001Terri Boris' Yaquina View Elementary School 4th and 5th Grade135 lbs. of fresh produce were picked and delivered to Lincoln County Food Share.The 39 lb. pumpkin went to Mrs. Terri Boris' classroom. Some of the seeds from it will be planted next year. The garden was first planted in 1994 by Andy Hall of South Beach. Yaquina View Elementary School has been planting and harvesting the garden since 1997. The OSU Master Gardener program has contributed to this success through the work of Paula Cline-Jones and others. There are 29 thumbnail pictures on this page: please be patient while they load! (The students were patient while their vegetables grew!) These thumbnails are linked to original full sized images. Use your browser's back button to return here from the larger images! More garden information below the pictures! This page is printable, of course. To print the larger pictures, you may have better luck if you right click, or click and hold, and save the original, larger, pictures to your computer, then print them from a program on your computer such as Photo Editor, or Jade, etc.
This heritage vegetable and flower garden is a project made possible by Yaquina View Elementary School teachers, students, parents, and other volunteers in cooperation with Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and the Friends of Yaquina Lighthouses Funding for the program is from the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust in San Francisco and an anonymous local source. Funding is dedicated to the garden itself as well as a small greenhouse for starting seedlings at the school, scientific and educational equipment for the students, and transportation for the students. The garden is meant to re-create what was probably a small scale garden at this and many other lighthouses used by early lighthouse keepers and their families as a partial source of self-sufficiency. Vegetables and flowers were selected that may have been grown in the Newport area in the 1870's, the original era of operation of this lighthouse. Some of the plants you may see here (varying from year to year, of course) are: Old English Sweet Peas, Nasturtiums, Arugula, Chives, Basil, Heirloom Green Leaf Lettuce , Blue Lagoon (Blue Lake Type) Bush Beans, Minicor (Baby) Carrots, Champion Collards, Mixed Giant Dahlia, Short Top Icicle Radish, Bloomsdale Spinach, Olympia Hybrid Plain Leaf Spinach, Giant Fordhook Swiss Chard, Russian Mammoth Sunflower, Purple Top White Globe Heirloom Turnip, Artichoke, Azalea, Chamomile, Greek Oregano, Italian Parsley, Heaven Angels Poppies, and Rhubarb. Edible vegetables from this garden may be available to students and their families, volunteers, and the Lincoln County Food Share, a charitable organization. The students market viable seeds from the garden through the lighthouse interpretive store. You may walk through the garden, carefully, if you wish. Imagine a similar garden nourishing the lighthouse keeper's family here 125 years ago! The Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Garden is sponsored by Friends of Yaquina Lighthouses, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and the Stanley Horticultural Trust. |
