 Two local nonprofits are helping landscape a Southeast Bend affordable housing development and teaching local teens about the importance of native plants. Affordable housing developer Thistle and Ness, Stephanie Davila, says the project to transplant native shrubs and grasses is a collaboration with High Desert Horticultural Center and teens from Camp Fire Central Oregon. It was wonderful to see them in action and so excited about learning. The plants were harvested from another Bend property under development.