HFCC Community Service

Even though it is our busiest time of the year, we made time to give back to our community.  Today part of our staff is busy helping out at the Peggy Crosby Center.  They are spreading mulch and planting perennials in an effort to improve the landscaping.  The Peggy Crosby Center provides affordable office space to organizations offering community services.  Their tenants provide much needed assistance to those living in Highlands and in western North Carolina. 

Team effort planting

Planting perennials

Blowing the parking lot

Hauling mulch

Recycling Trees on the Course

This winter the maintenance staff removed approximately 1000 trees throughout the course.  This included small diameter trees along with large white pines and dead hemlocks.  While most of the trees were reduced to chips by way of the chipper, we were still saddled with what to do with the large trees.  Hauling these to the dump would get expensive as we would incur the cost of hauling plus the dump fees. We also asked several saw mills if they wanted them but none were interested.

 

We decided on another plan and contracted a portable sawmill service.  Knowing what we know now, this probably should have been our first plan. We have had most of the logs milled into boards and beams that we can use for future projects.  This has been a great opportunity for us to recycle what would otherwise be waste.   Two possible future projects that we may use this lumber for are a privacy fence along the property line on hole #5 and a simple pole barn for storing equipment.