Burkhiser Plantings
More than 10,000 square feet of high-water-use Kentucky blue grass was removed to create growing space for masses of trees, regional grasses, and native shrubs. Buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), wild American plum (Prunus Americana), and creeping western sandcherry (Prunus pumila L. var. besseyi). The sandcherry was collected on C-Hill. All produce summer fruit enjoyed by wildlife and available to the college’s Family and Consumer Sciences program. Plantings are mulched with local pine chips and watered with a dripline fed by a 3,000 gallon tank of rainwater captured from the roof of Burkhiser.