Merrit DesLauriers Community Work Portfolio
Lakewood Upper Garden
Created in 2017, influenced by permaculture principles and the need for a shared healing and learning space. Nearly 100% of plants propagated on site from seed, using a home made seed starting blend and portable greenhouse. Beds are crafted from fallen branches, trimmings from trees and shrubs, utilizing on-site materials and historical raised bed techniques. Image albums show progression from blank slate to healing garden.
Lakewood Medicinal Garden
Coming soon...
Feather & Forager Service Learning Project, Crouse Run Nature Reserve, Gibsonia, PA
As an educator with Feather and Forager Wilderness School Cooperative, I coordinated and developed a volunteer learning service project at Crouse Run Nature Reserve for students aged four through fourteen. Collaborating with Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust, Tree Pittsburgh, and The Audubon Society of Western PA to educate and engage the students with hands on experience in the field to learn and utilize new skills, care for the environment, and to interact with local ecology meeting the mission and goals of the non-profit organization while restoring balance to the local ecosystem.
