An educational garden area located behind Palmer Ridge High School, the OLL is intentionally designed to be a place where students can learn in an interactive environment.  Once a dilapidated playground, the hard work of many students, teachers, donators, and community member volunteers has turned the area into an exciting success story of new developments and exciting opportunities.  Alongside our partnerships with UCCS, the Colorado Native Plant Society, the North American Rock Garden Society, and the CSU Master Gardening Program, the OLL also hosts regular community volunteer workdays, in which projects such as weeding, moving rock, and planting plants/seeds/bulbs are completed.  This year's focus will be on building the research transect infrastructure and the Colorado native plant garden.