7:00 to 8:00 pm at the Milwaukie Center – 5440 SE Kellogg Creek Dr. Milwaukie, OR 97222. Talks are free and open to the public.

December 8 – Growing Culturally Significant Plants: Connecting People to Place presented by Jeremy Ojua of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Jeremy will be speaking about growing plants that grow community. Jeremy Ojua is the Native plant nursery supervisor at the Natural Resources Department for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Operating the Native plant nursery to provide culturally significant native plants for restoration, cultural use, and education for the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde’s projects, programs, and community.

Prior to supervising nursery operations, Jeremy worked 13 years as Wildland fire fighter and Silviculture technician for the Tribes wildland fire program, helping to maintain healthy forests on the Tribe’s reservation lands and fighting wild fires nationally.

Jeremy is an avid snowboarder, photographer, and lapidary in his free time and more than anything just enjoys spending time outdoors. Jeremy can be reached at the following email address: [email protected]