Get Ready, Get Set....Go!

The bees are buzzing. The birds are singing. And residents along Aaron Drive (Lynden WA) are eagerly awaiting the start-up of a new community garden. Everybody and everything is happy, happy a garden is coming!

A local church (Sonlight Community Christian Reformed Church) is freely offering the use of 3/4 of an acre of their land to their neighbors to be used for growing food.

How awesome is that!

Over 320 north city residents are being invited to an informational and organizing meeting to start up the garden. See the flyer to the left.

On Saturday, February 21st, interested residents who received invitations by hand or through the mail are encouraged to gather and start planning the community garden.

This will take place at the New York Pizza and Pub (Bender Plaza) at 8874 Bender Rd, Lynden. Please RSVP PLEASE RSVP to let me know if you plan on attending...this way we'll make sure we have enough pizza and pop.



Central to making this a truly "community" garden, this has to be a "community" effort. Sonlight could have not only offered the land, but could have taken over this effort by designing the program themselves and THEN offer it to the residents.

Yet they decided it better to join in with the community in a cooperative way, so as to build up the neighborhood's capacity to do such good things TOGETHER!

So, starting Feb 21st, this joint venture begins.

For now at least, this effort will be for the benefit of those residents who live on or adjacent to Aaron Drive. Once these residents get the ball going, then they will be able to decide if there will be enough garden space for other Lynden folk.

If you have questions, call me at 318-1851.

Oh yes...the picture at the top of this blog, yep that's the land we will be developing into our community garden.

Okay...start the imagination process...can you see the beauty of it all...can you see young and old, working side by side, having more fun than you're supposed to!! Of course, they'll be having fun...I'll be weeding.

Here are more pictures and perspectives of what it looks like right now.
















Thanks,
Jeff