For almost a decade, faculty and students in the Landscape Architecture program (Environmental Design & Rural Development) have been working with the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation at its flagship summer camp, Onondaga Farms, near St. George, Ontario.

Last year, in a project to ecognize donors and re-create native habitat, faculty members Sean Kelly, Karen Landman, Lise Burcher, Maurice Nelischer and Nathan Perkins created a design for about four acres near the camp’s main entrance. The work included the installation of a dry-laid stone wall, whereby faculty and students learned the thousandyear-old technique to construct a wall that is expected to last a few centuries.

This fall, faculty, undergraduate and graduate students continue the outreach project by helping to create a native prairie meadow, trails and a pond bridge at Onondaga Farms.

Article reprinted from OAC FACE >forward, Sept 2007