Thank you to all of our neighbors who joined our Creek Restoration planting efforts!  Many hands make light work! Volunteers planted over 500 native grasses and over 60 shrubs along the creek to protect eroded creek banks and create better habitat for native wildlife. 

From 4-year-olds to 40-somethings-and-beyond, neighbors from throughout the Four Seasons community turned out along Johnson Creek Saturday and Sunday, March 21-22, to celebrate - and protect - one of our neighborhood’s most treasured landmarks.

Creek Committee chairs, Tami Katz and Elaine McDonald, were delighted with the weekend’s turnout. “The volume and quality of planting that volunteers did was amazing,” Katz said. “But it was really special to see our neighbors, including kids, parents, and grandparents, dig right in and plant together. It was community.”

One volunteer summed it up perfectly, “The best thing about being out here is being out here!”

The planting party was funded in part by a $5,000 grant from the Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District, which is supporting the transformation of the creek corridor with a first round of planting. This is the first phase of a multi-year project. A Creek Committee that includes board members and volunteers from Four Seasons and Crystalbrook is spearheading the project.

Watch for announcements via email and on the Four Seasons website about future volunteer opportunities. The plants will need watering, monitoring, and weeding in coming months. We will also post updates as the plants grow and flourish!   Again, thank you!  

-- Tami Katz and Elaine McDonald