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
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Maintained by 9th grade Health students who are in the garden every Friday during the growing season.
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Compost Piles (adding food waste from the school)
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Worm Bins
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Cover Cropping
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Crop Rotation
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Tool Repair
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Plant Germination
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Seed Production
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Expanding the Herb Garden
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Vegetables - lots of cold crops such as radishes or lettuce
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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
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.)