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The OARDC Grounds Dept. consists of seven full-time staff members.  This includes the Grounds Manager, and a Plant Materials Specialist, who is in charge of the 2.7 acre Garden of Legend and Romance Roses.  During the peak spring and summer season, the crew expands to include from 3-8 student employees.
2011 Grounds Crew
Full Time Staff standing in back
1984-2011 Crew Pictures
What We Do

Since the Grounds Department is a Service Unit,  the scope of duties performed is as varied as it is far reaching.  Some of those responsibilities include:
 
pat kritz mowing turf



kelly mahl cutting taxus



mike pattison grinding stumps



  bobcat tree spade

  • Maintaining the OARDC campus including:  mowing, weeding, turf renovations, ornamental & herbaceous planting, pruning, & removals; fertilizing, pesticide applications and trash removal.

  • Maintaining and renovating major turf and plot areas of Secrest Arboretum.

  • Growing and providing for plant material as required, for use on the campus grounds, arboretum, OARDC residences, and Outlying Branches.

  • Providing consultation and assistance to residents in OARDC houses and Branches on maintaining lawns, shrubs and trees

  • Providing consultation, support and assistance to other universities, the green industry, and the general public

  • Removing snow and ice from sidewalks at campus buildings.

  • Providing landscape design and mapping as needed for the campus, arboretum, OARDC residences, Outlying Branches or other special projects including OSUE.

  • Providing support and resources for ongoing research projects located on campus, Secrest Arboretum, and Outlying Branches.

  • Providing personnel for support of special event days.

  • Maintaining and repairing nursery, arboriculture, and turf equipment.
 

History

 

Originally, maintenance of the "green space" on the OARDC campus was performed by members of the Research Operations Farm Crew.  Then, in 1981, a separate unit within Research Operations was designated as Campus Grounds.  In the Spring of 1984, personnel from the campus and arboretum crews, previously two separate units, merged into one workforce as OARDC Grounds Maintenance; though still a unit of Research Operations.  This both streamlined our duties, and made us more cost effective.  Starting in the Spring of 1996, control of the 2.7 acre Garden of Romance and Legend Roses, previously part of Farm Operations, came under the oversight of OARDC Grounds, bringing this unit to its present day form.

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