Community Garden Program branches:
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- Vegetable garden
- Traditional medicine garden
- Elders Garden
- Revitalization of established fruit tree orchard
- Streamside restoration, trail restoration
- Educational classes on traditional foods and medicine
- Cooking classes for the Tribal community with fresh organic produce
- Traditional medicine making classes
- Harvesting workshops
- Plant identification walks
- Education for young children through on-site partnership with the Squaxin Child Development Center
- Ongoing land, building, machinery, crop, infrastructure maintenance
- Celebrations/harvest parties
- Work Parties and volunteer efforts (community-building and skill-building) including:
- Educational workshops on tree care
- Basic gardening techniques, cultivation, composting, weeding, trimming, and pruning and other aspects of garden maintenance like improving soil conditions.
- Weeding thistle and blackberry bushes
- Hauling loads of soil, oyster shell, and woodchips
