Student Contributor -B. Williamson
On their website they claim their mission is to, “Inland Northwest Community Gardens provides local access to healthy edible gardening through networking, demonstrations, advocacy, and connecting people to gardens and urban agricultural or sustainability programs.” They go to communities and help them to build a community garden that they hope can remain active and well used for years to come. They also have a yearly rate to be a community garden member. The fees are $8-$10 a year and this gets members food from the garden and an invitation to potluck dinners.
This group of WSU “Master Gardeners” works together with communities to bring long lasting community gardens as a source of sustainable food. They go hands on with the community, teaching them about growing and maintaining a community garden, the basics of harvesting, identifying common weeds, composting, organic gardening and basic vegetable gardening. This helps develop a local food-network in the community. To go along with the local food-network, members also receive two potlucks a year and a 10-15% discount at local gardening stores.
It would be really cool to have teachers and students take the lead in getting Inland Northwest Community Gardens to come in and help start a community garden. Everyone in the community can benefit from the food and the students can learn about plants and how to take care of them from Inland Northwest Community Gardens.
