Comments on: Equal access for all inspires Rock Creek’s Learning Garden improvements

By: Debra Lippoldt

Debra Lippoldt — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:33:04 +0000

This is such exciting and wonderful news! Thank you to all of you involved and especially to Patricia and Miriam!

By: PJ Golden

PJ Golden — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:19:34 +0000

I have had the privilege of visiting the Learning Garden and, as a manual wheelchair user, I am incredibly grateful to Miriam and Patricia for ensuring its’ accessibility. It was such a great feeling when I visited to be able to eat at the accessible picnic table. I found the table to be totally accessible for me, and much more inclusive. Thank you Jerad Klingsporn! I am really looking forward to being able to work in the garden – hopefully in the spring – and to using the accessible the garden tools that the Learning Garden has available. Thank you Miriam and Patricia, your hard work and commitment to accessibility and inclusivity is very much appreciated!

With much gratitude,

By: Usha Ramanujam

Usha Ramanujam — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:56:05 +0000

A great article ! Thank you Patricia and Miriam for working together to make the Learning Garden at Rock Creek completely accessible. This provides a good model for proactively thinking and providing equitable opportunity for students and staff without limitations. Kudos!

By: Brad Barbarick

Brad Barbarick — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:29:31 +0000

Great Article Alfredo! And awesome Work Jerad Klingsporn in the RC learning garden during the pandemic!

By: Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:19:18 +0000

Plus: Big shout out to Jerad Klingsporn in the Physical Education department at RC for building our first, beautiful and accessible picnic table with removable benches! Thank you so much!

By: Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:06:03 +0000

Chethana, thanks for your message! Beginning in Spring Term we will be inviting student resource centers to adopt a garden bed. However, if any of the available beds aren’t adopted I will make them available to individual students, staff and faculty via campus-wide announcements. Please stay tuned!

By: chethana

chethana — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:14:16 +0000

Great initiative. I am very much into gardening and I am an employee at PCC, I live very close to RC campus. Do you have any program where you provide a certain area for employees to grow during Spring and Summer time? Intel in Hillsboro has that option and was wondering about that at PCC but did not know who to ask or where to enquire. It will be really nice if we can get that option at PCC too.

Thanks,
Chethana