West Willow Community Garden Takes Root!

Growing Hope and the West Willow Neighborhood Association are proud to announce the official opening and community celebration of the West Willow Community Garden.

Neighborhood residents of the West Willow Community pulled together this winter and spring to develop a plan, a plan to improve their community and lives. Through months of discussions, brainstorming and planning residents decided a new community garden would be one action step, a positive move forward to improving their neighborhood. And in the early summer Growing Hope jumped in to help with this process!

June was a busy month for the West Willow Garden Committee. They attended two three-hour training and preparation sessions hosted by Growing Hope designed to get the Garden Committee ready for a successful first season. The on June 30th, over 15 community residents and volunteers pulled together to get this garden in the ground. Workers cleared the area, rototilled the large communal plot, built raised beds, spread compost, and planted flowers and veggies galore. This ambitious garden has an open communal bed and 8 individual or family raised beds with over 1400 ft2 of garden in cultivation this year.