Port Townsend High School Production and Culinary Garden / Food Bank Garden

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This high production garden serves garden and culinary classes and the PT Food Bank during the summer months since 2012.  Students have classes on multiple days. Volunteers work on Fridays 9-11. 

Co-Managers:

Garden Coordinator: Rachel Dunn - rachaelmichelledunn@gmail.com

Master Gardener: Doug Van Allen

  • Maintained by 9th grade Health students who are in the garden every Friday during the growing season.
  • Compost Piles (adding food waste from the school)
  • Worm Bins
  • Cover Cropping
  • Crop Rotation
  • Tool Repair
  • Plant Germination
  • Seed Production
  • Expanding the Herb Garden
  • Vegetables - lots of cold crops such as radishes or lettuce
  • Produce goes to school meal program first under Food Services Director: Shannon Gray (office in Salish Coast School) and then donated to the PT Food Bank.

CULINARY

  • Culinary Arts Classes under Jennifer Kruse
  • Garden Curriculum specialist: Stacey Larsen
  • T.A.C.O. program
  • 9th Grade Market Day

Funding and Support: Would you like to help? The plot needs someone to keep it viable throughout the summer season when the school isn't open--weeding, watering, transplanting, harvesting... Fridays from 10-2. Or if you can donate mulch, tools, etc. or funding, please contact Doug Van Allen

FOOD BANK FARMS and GARDEN

Size: 10,000 sq. ft.

Gardening Style: Raised beds, hoop house, rows, full prep area outside of garden, pollinator garden, irrigated.

Growing: Veggies, raspberries, fruit, lettuce, winter and summer vegetables.

Serving: Port Townsend Public Schools with surplus to Port Townsend Food Bank, (Distributed Wednesday and Saturday).

Supporters: Port Townsend Schools, Food Bank Growers, WSU Jefferson County Extension Master Gardeners, Hermann brothers,

Need: Volunteers in summer to harvest, prep, deliver food .

For more information:

FoodBankGrowers@gmail.com

1610 Blaine St. Port Townsend, Wa (Drive down the dirt road to get to the garden that is behind the Gael Stuart Bldg.)

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