The Food and Education Action Team of the Horizons Program in Bingen and White Salmon is now the Common Grounds Team. The team has been meeting weekly, and sometimes more often, planning and promoting our community gardens. We are proceeding with two gardens. Humboldt Garden is near Daubenspeck Park in Bingen and Skyline Garden is next to the Rhine Village apartment complex in White Salmon. Each garden will contain plots for about 24 families.
Garden plots are four feet wide and range from 10 to 25 feet in length. The cost to each gardener is one dollar per foot of length with the money going to pay for water and some basic tools. Registration began Saturday April 19. The next registration day is Saturday April 26 from 10 a.m. to noon and will take place at each site. Both gardens are scheduled to be ready and open for gardening on April 28.
Many volunteers, including a local Brownie troop and a crew of community service workers, have helped with all the work prepareing the gardens. On April 19, volunteers using heavy equipment moved a donated shed to the Skyline Garden to be used for tool and material storage. Of course, more volunteers are very welcome. Call Bruce Bolme at 493-8202 or Timi Keene at 493-5263 to lend a hand or learn more about the gardens.
