LINC NW is working toward a full-functioning community garden this year. LINC's vision is to create a community garden that supplies community members with fresh vegetables as well as a small crop to local food banks. Distribution of the fresh veggies grown here will start by being stocked into a small food pantry now located inside LINC NW. This pantry was donated alongside the garden supplies and will allow us to give fresh vegetables and non-perishables for free.
Our garden layout goal is to surround the gardens with pollinating plants and then grow vegetables in the main garden boxes. We have built eight new garden boxes this winter. We are also hoping to move a couple of the garden beds we currently have to the preschool so the students can experiment with gardening.
Bill Hogland will be the project lead for the community garden. To help us with this exciting project, we are looking to gather a team of volunteers who will help maintain the gardens. We have all the materials, and the assembly is being completed by the LINC NW team and Volunteers of America. We now just need volunteers to maintain the beds as well as the seeds/vegetable starts. If you would like to help with either of these needs, please contact Kim at 425-312-3474 or kim@lincnw.org.
We also want to give a special thanks to Volunteers of America for the donation of all materials for the community garden and the fresh food pantry.