Wilmington College Community Gardens
Located on the Wilmington College campus, the Grow Food, Grow Hope Community Garden is a 40-plot vegetable and herb garden maintained by low-to-moderate income families and individuals in our community. The plots are provided completely free of cost to the families and gardeners, and 100% of the resources, tools and education materials are covered by the college.
Here is a video from our first official garden night of 2010.
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Mulberry Street Community Gardens
Click here for more information on our Backyard Garden Project
Demonstration Garden
School Gardens
Mulberry Street Community Gardens
The Mulberry Street Community Garden is home to seven 4’x12’ raised bed gardens and a 14'x14' pop bottle greenhouse located on South Mulberry Street in Wilmington. The land was donated by Scott Kirchner and the plots were built by Grow Food, Grow Hope volunteers. Participants are provided with all of the tools and materials necessary to maintain their gardens and weekly meetings are held to plant and harvest.
Backyard Garden Project
By using a variation of the square-foot gardening method made famous by Mel Bartholomew, small-plot gardening is a manageable and productive way to augment a family's food supply and introduce the concepts of growing food from seed. We have created a goal of 35 new backyard gardens in 2011 around Wilmington and Clinton County.
Click here for more information on our Backyard Garden Project
Demonstration Garden
In June 2009, the Demonstration Garden opened. It is located at the J.W. Denver Williams Memorial Park in Wilmington. The purpose of this garden is to demonstrate that a considerable amount of food can be grown in a relatively small amount of space. The Demonstration Garden has served as an educational tool for local youth organizations as well as everyday passers-by in the park
Childhood hunger is an issue that is very relevant to Clinton County. We have found that children in our community do not always lack food, but rather lack access to fresh and nutritious food sources. While this is not the typical view on childhood hunger, it is equally as important to address.
For Learn2Grow, the first step in eliminating childhood hunger within our community is to expose local youth to fresh produce straight from the garden. During each school garden session, activities are planned to enhance each child's understanding of how their food is produced. This is accomplished by having children learn gardening skills in a safe, nurturing environment. Working with appropriately-sized tools, each child plants, waters, weeds and harvests produce in their school garden. During each visit to the school gardens, children are exposed to activities that incorporate education into the gardening experience. By incorporating the State of Ohio academic content standards and kid-friendly cooking demonstrations into each garden visit, children are able to better related to their gardening experience through something with which they are already familiar.
For Learn2Grow, the first step in eliminating childhood hunger within our community is to expose local youth to fresh produce straight from the garden. During each school garden session, activities are planned to enhance each child's understanding of how their food is produced. This is accomplished by having children learn gardening skills in a safe, nurturing environment. Working with appropriately-sized tools, each child plants, waters, weeds and harvests produce in their school garden. During each visit to the school gardens, children are exposed to activities that incorporate education into the gardening experience. By incorporating the State of Ohio academic content standards and kid-friendly cooking demonstrations into each garden visit, children are able to better related to their gardening experience through something with which they are already familiar.
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