Kwantlen horticulture students applied their skills by designing
and installing the lawn and gardens for the Yule family home.
 

For immediate release

October 28, 2009

Kwantlen horticulture students provide helping hand on 2009 yard makeover project

(METRO VANCOUVER, B.C.) For the third year in a row, in partnership with Cornerstone Home Team (a local church), Kwantlen Polytechnic University horticulture students applied their skills in a very special way by designing and installing the lawn and gardens for the Yule family home in Coquitlam.

Similar to the American television show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, Cornerstone sent the Yule family to Whistler for a week while the crew spent that time completely renovating the Yule house, which was in serious disrepair due to all the time the family spent helping others in need.

Kwantlen horticulture students volunteered to work tirelessly, landscaping for a deserving family they had never met. Once completed, the yard makeover project exceeded the vision for what could be done by so few in such short time. The Yule family was too overcome with emotion to speak, but one of the first comments heard at final reveal was, “I have my garden back!”

Kwantlen’s School of Horticulture, located at the Langley Campus, was one of many businesses from the Metro Vancouver horticulture industry that donated a total of $3,000 worth of garden plants, trees, sod, garden mulch, top soil, trucking services, kids playhouse and play set, and other horticulture supplies for the Yule family yard makeover.

Alongside the students, Kwantlen staff was especially proud of the students’ positive, cooperative and supportive attitude with the Yule family’s yard makeover project and especially impressed with the way the students resolved all the challenges with creativity and ingenuity.

Kwantlen’s School of Horticulture provides students with opportunities in greenhouse and nursery production; investigations into forest infestation by insects and fungi; and research into environmentally safe practices of weed and insect-free urban grass surfaces, parks and home gardens. For more information, visit: kwantlen.ca/hort

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For more information about this story, contact:
Stan Kazymerchyk
Instructor, Turfgrass Management
Tel: 604-599-3295
stan.kazymerchyk@kwantlen.ca  

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For more information about Kwantlen’s horticulture programs, contact:
David Davidson
Associate Dean, School of Horticulture
Tel: 604.599.3259
david.davidson@kwantlen.ca  

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Director, Marketing and Communications
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