Growing culturally significant plants: connecting people to place

Join the Clackamas County Master Gardener Association's Lecture Series as Jeremy Ojua, Native Plant Nursery Supervisor for the Natural Resources Department of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, presents his work.

Jeremy will be speaking about growing plants that grow community. He oversees the Native Plant Nursery, which provides culturally significant native plants for restoration, cultural use, and education in support of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s projects, programs, and community.

Prior to supervising nursery operations, Jeremy spent 13 years as a wildland firefighter and silviculture technician for the Tribe’s wildland fire program, helping maintain healthy forests on the Tribe’s reservation lands and fighting wildfires nationally.

In his free time, Jeremy is an avid snowboarder, photographer, and lapidary artist, and enjoys nothing more than spending time outdoors.