Beaver Creek Housing Cooperative encompasses five acres of land, and needs constant landscape maintenance. To this end we have a Landscape Committee. Landscape's purpose has three parts:
- maintain the common outdoor area of the Co-op,
- enhance the ecological diversity of the site and its surroundings, and
- foster an appreciation in the membership of the landscaped environment.
Things the Landscape Committee is responsible for include:
- garbage, recycling, compost and snow removal contracts;
- planning and implementing Fall and Spring Work Day jobs;
- maintaining the play structures, parking, signs and common outdoor areas;
- maintaining and managing the landscape equipment and supplies;
- co-ordination of the community gardens;
- approving landscape improvement requests from members for their backyard spaces;
- reviewing and regulating land use and planting policies;
- educating the membership of landscaping topics;
- and any other aspect of looking after our outdoor environment.
Contact: landscape (at) beavercreek.coop
Orchard Committee is a sub-committee of Landscape Committee. Their primary goal is to develop and maintain our organic permaculture orchard which features the following trees and berry plants:
- apple
- Asian pear
- cherry (sweet and sour)
- apricot
- peach
- nectarine
- paw paw
- chum
- raspberry
- gooseberry
- aronia berry
- blueberry
- aronia berry
- hardy kiwi
- grapes
- haskap
- blackberry
- currant
- quince
Contact: orchard (at) beavercreek.coop