Growing Together in the Evergreen Community Garden is a cooperative collaborative effort which provides communal open space where city and county residents share in the planning, preparation, planting, maintenance, ad produce of a community garden. Planting was done in assigned raised beds in a beautiful, safe, and fun space, with a diversity of people participating.
This project utilized in-kind services from a variety of sources around the area and included neighborhood leaders, churches, clubs, city and county elected officials, housing authorities, local agencies, local newspaper, and individual volunteers. All of the above shared their skills, donated time, and work effort to help to build, sustain, and maintain this Evergreen Community Garden Project
An irrigation system and safe walkways were installed in the garden between the raised beds. In addition, more raised beds were built and some repaired. Soil and amendments were added to the raised beds before planting. The project made it possible for the community garden to be used year round. Workshops and classes for planting in raised beds according to the seasons were held and we were able to have a fall planting. The winter months wee used to maintain the garden and workshops were held to prepare for the next growing season. We planted seeds in the greenhouse to yield vegetables plants to plan in the beds in the spring. In each season there was a picnic and a scheduled workshop, work day, or harvest day. Most of all there were plenty of opportunities for the development of friendships. We have truly grown together in the Evergreen Community Garden