Spring time is the perfect time to have our Mukilteo Community Garden partners visit the club. Tish shared an update about her organization, who have been serving Mukilteo since 2009.

The MCG operates with 100% volunteer support and their goal is to provide education and help for those wishing to garden. It also donates valuable food resources to two of our local food banks (Mukilteo and Lynnwood). In recent years they have offered a local business “classroom space.” This allows preschoolers an introduction to nature and its environs. Nature Together is owned and operated by one of our board members!

Each year the MCG offers over 50 families the chance to grow their own vegetables or flowers, using P-Patch rental beds. Renters may use their area from March through February, and families or individuals enjoy having a place to productively grow crops.

In addition, over 50 spaces are dedicated to growing vegetables for the area food banks. Volunteers come each week to tend P-Patches filled with veggies such as radishes, lettuce, carrots, cauliflower, celery, beets and more. In recent years, because our community’s demographic has evolved, vegetables used by countries such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Slavic countries are also being cultivated. It is a welcome lesson for all of us!

For more information on ways to become involved, visit: Mukilteogarden.org.

NOTE: Mukilteo Kiwanis and their Key Clubs will be at the community garden on Saturday, April 18, 9a – 2p for their annual cleanup. Please come and help us make the community garden ready for another growing season.