Recyling Plants Saves Pets

Blending a passion for gardening and the love of gardening is all it took for Keni Cyr-Rumble to begin her Recycled Gardens. Recycled Gardens is a fund-raising division of Pet Overpopulation Prevention-Advocates, Inc., hence POPPA, Inc., a nonprofit organization working to reduce the number of homeless companion animals in Oregon. Director Cyr-Rumble states that the plant donors have been wonderfully generous because they are caring gardeners who want to find new homes for their unwanted plants just as much as they want to see all the homeless animals find life-long caregivers.

Recycled Garden’s entire plant stock is donated or grown from cuttings and collected seed. The nursery receives donor plants from private gardens and overstocked or imperfect merchandise from supporting local nurseries and garden centers.

The nursery currently offers a wide spectrum of plants including perennials for sun and shade, small trees, andwater plants. Also for sale are a variety of gifts and garden ornaments either second hand or made from recycled material.

POPPA has assisted with more than 8,000 spays and neuter surgeries. The spay/neuter assistance fund needs donations. A donation of only $30 is enough to pay for the neuter of one cat, $40 will pay for the spay of one cat, and $50 will help pay for the spay or neuter of a dog or rabbit.

Recycled Gardens is located at 6996 NW Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro, OR 97124 for more information logon to www.poppainc.org.