Clark College students install drain at community greenhouse

HAZEL DELL — Thirty-three Clark College students from Kristen Myklebust’s and Veronica Brock’s Food and Your Health classes attended two work parties at the Hazel Dell School and Community Garden. They assisted with work, including planting, weeding, spreading bark and working on a major project to install a French drain at the entrance to the greenhouse. Previously, elementary students and garden volunteers had to walk across a “lake” to enter the greenhouse when it rained, according to Barbara Nordstrom, a master gardener from Washington State University and garden coordinator. “Thanks to the work of the Clark students and funding from the Master Gardener Foundation, winter rains should not result in a swim to the greenhouse.”