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  • Wahkiakum Community Garden Update for 2015

    Winnie Lowsma and Joyce Orr|Nov 12, 2015

    The gardening season is now over. Our local Community Garden is into clean-up mode, and we are putting the garden to bed for the winter. The garden gang thanks all the gardeners, volunteers, and contributors for their help and support. This year the garden donated 1,540 pounds of fresh, seasonal vegetables and herbs to our local food banks. This included cabbage, carrots, kale, broccoli, beets, lettuces, cucumbers, summer squash, winter squash, green beans, tomatoes, Swiss chard, Walla Walla onions, parsley, oregano, chives, and possibly...

  • End of the season at the community garden

    Winnie Lowsma and Joyce Orr|Dec 20, 2012

    Seven to 10 hardy gardeners regularly brave the cold Wednesday mornings to work on putting the Community Garden in Erickson Park on Columbia Street in Cathlamet to bed for the winter. These workers, some who garden a plot of their own and some who just want to volunteer, have weeded, rototilled, carted garden waste to compost piles, refreshed pathways with shredded cedar shavings, and much more. The final wheelbarrow load of straw and manure mulch for the season was emptied onto the garden December 12. The community garden has been put to bed,...