The Evergreen State College is in the process of creating a collection of teaching gardens to foster environmental education. Through these gardens we commit to:

• use no pesticide or chemical fertilizers
• use non-invasive species with an emphasis on natives
• reduce lawns and existing invasive plantings
• use post-consumer recycled materials when possible

We already tend or plan to create:

Basket Garden: (2006)
To provide basket-making materials available for tribal artists who struggle to obtain enough plant material to keep traditional arts alive. We hope to collaborate with local tribal artists. We also intend to grow harvestable material used in traditional European basketmaking arts.

Deer Knot Garden: (2005)
Theoretically composed of plants resistant to deer browse. Plants attractive to deer, like clover, will also be included to find a solution for a problem that puts many a gardener in knots.

Laurasian Landscape: (In progress).
With related plants from North America and Eurasia this garden creates a means to learn about how continental drift and land bridges influence plant speciation.

Lawns: (Existing)
A demonstration of beauty without poison.

Longhouse Ethnobotanical Garden: (In progress)
Native plants arranged by habitat and labeled with native names.

Medicinal Herb Garden: (Spring 2004)
Medieval and Renaissance European medicinal herbs located at the Organic Farm.

Post-Glacial Forest: (Completed)
A forest in this region at the end of the last Ice Age.

Prairie Roof Garden : (Completed)
A prairie of indigenous food plants and native medicine plants from local prairies.

Rainforest Medicine Trail: (2008)
Features native healing plants growing wild in the woods.

Roof Gardens: (Completed)
Gardens of succulents and other plants located on the new Seminar II building.

Waterwise Pollinator Garden: (Completed)
Raising consciousness about the importance of bugs and other pollinators.

Western Woods: (In progress)
A celebration of soft and hardwood trees in the parking lot.