College Resourses

Landscape Technology

Faculty and Staff

Marilyn Alexander		Marilyn Alexander has a Bachelors of Science in Horticulture from Washington State University and a Design Certificate from Portland Community College. She started working in her college years in a wholesale greenhouse, and afterwards worked with various companies gaining experience doing pesticide spraying, bedding plants, the head designer in a florist shop and a retail garden center. After staying home to raise her two children (considered her most important job to date), she re-entered the work force as a designer/estimator for a design/build company in Oregon City, and has since operated her own landscape design business. Favorite pastimes: breathing, weeding, and spending a moment with friends and family.

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Greg Brown		Greg Brown studied Landscape Architecture at Oregon State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1973. He joined the Peace Corps after graduating and performed Landscape Architecture and master planned parks for the Costa Rican National Park Service. Back in the U.S., Greg worked for various nurseries and landscape companies. He then taught landscape and horticulture skills to “at-risk” students at the Springdale Job Corps Center for 8 years. Greg has had his own landscape business, Agro Works Landscaping, for over 15 years. His company focuses on residential and small commercial design, construction and maintenance. Greg has been teaching part time at Mt. Hood Community College, in their Horticulture Department, for the last two years. In addition to these responsibilities, he stays busy with 1 acre of commercial blueberries. Greg is a licensed commercial pesticides applicator and teaches Pesticides at PCC.

Chuck Buffett		Chuck comes to PCC horticulture program from the landscape industry where he has been operating his own landscape maintenance business in Oregon both full and part-time for over 25 years. He is also a free-lance writer and has written many magazine articles about the nursery and landscape industry. Along with his wife, Patti, they also do some landscape design, consulting and lecturing. He has been an instructor for 14 years at PCC, and at Chemeketa Community College, McMinnville campus since 1997. Professional credentials include a BS degree in horticulture with an emphasis on landscape and turf grass from Oregon State University. He has been active in the Oregon Association of Nurseries especially with the OAN sponsored Yard, Garden and Patio Show in which he and his wife were chairman for three years and have been involved in many display garden installations. When not working, they are involved with their friend’s small family run winery near Amity. They also enjoy gardening at home, hiking, and being outdoors. Chuck teaches Plant Propagation, Native Plants of Oregon and Grounds Maintenance.

Kevin Caldwell		Keven is the department's landscape technician, responsible for maintaining the grounds, greenhouse, shop, landscape equipment, and just about everything else necessary to keep the department running. Prior to coming to this position, Keven was a groundskeeper at PCC,owned his own landscape maintenance company, and was a grounds supervisor for Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

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Linda Engstrom		Linda grew up on the East coast (the daughter of two art teachers) where she earned a design degree from Cornell University and then worked eight years as a room designer for Armstrong World Industries, designing many of the ads in the home magazines of the late 60's. In 1973 she moved to Oregon with her husband and two sons and in 1979 received an Associate degree in Landscape Design from the program here at PCC. In 1984 she and her husband established Cloudrest Vineyards on 12 acres of hillside property on Bald Peak South of Hillsboro. Since 1984 she has traveled and photographed gardens in England, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, and even Siberia! She has studied under the English landscape designer, John Brookes, and also considers the late Barbara Fealy to be a mentor. She started teaching part-time at PCC in 1990. Currently she teaches Plant Composition, Design Process, and Landscape Illustration. She is a certified member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers ( APLD) and has served on their Board of Directors as both webmaster and President( 2003). In addition to offering designs and consultations under her business, Garden Aesthetics, she dabbles in writing, photography and enjoying her grandchild.

Dick Hollenbeck		Dick Hollenbeck, founder of the Rock Creek Environmental Studies Center, has a Five Year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Degree from the University of Oregon. Having taught 30 years in the Landscape Technology Department and served as department chair, Dick is retired, but comes back to teach a plant materials class every quarter. Dick is still active in the green industry and serves on the Oregon Landscape Contractor's Board.

Jennifer Huber		Jennifer comes to the department after seven years at Fed Ex where she was an Operations Manager. She has joined the LAT department as a full time student and part-time grounds keeper for the Landscape Technology grounds.

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Steven Price		Steven became involved in the green industry working as a teen for his grandfather, who was the groundskeeper for a fraternal organization in Eugene Oregon. Steven received an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon. After serving in the U.S. Army, Steven got his MBA from Oregon State University with a focus on Small Business Development and Extension Methods. During the last ten years, Steven has worked many positions; help desk in a retail garden center, teaching Horticulture at the High school level and running the lawn care division of a large pest management company. During that time Steven also became an experienced OSU Master Gardener and received documentation from the University of Georgia and the Professional Lawn Care Association of America as a Certified Turfgrass Professional. Currently Steven runs his own consulting company, RTS and is the Estate Gardener for a large facility in Portland. Steven is still an active member of the Master Gardeners and is the lawn instructor for new Master Gardeners in seven counties. Steven also applies himself to his hobbies and has become a national caliber chili cook and is the Coordinator of the Oregon State Chili Championships. He will be teaching the Turfgrass Cultural Practices course this spring.

Loren Radford		Loren has been both a vocational horticulture and forestry teacher for 24 years, 12 at PCC and the remainder in North Carolina, South Carolina, and New York. He has also worked as an Extension agent and owned a landscape/tree service business is western North Carolina.Professional credentials include currently being a certified arborist and a licensed Oregon landscape contractor. When not working, Loren lives out in the woods of the Coast Range, where he enjoys splitting firewood and chasing elk out of his garden. He teaches many of the construction - related courses such as Landscape Construction Practices, Landscape Irrigation I & II, Tree Care and is a big believer in "getting your hands and feet dirty" education