Help Create a Garden

Join Whatcom County School Garden Collective and members of Transition Whatcom for a school garden work party! Work that needs to be done: sinking fence posts, hanging fencing, sheet mulching, weeding and more. Please bring a pair of work gloves. Other equipment that is useful to bring: shovel, wheelbarrow, posthole digger. Light refreshments will be provided. The Whatcom County School Garden Collective is a project of Common Threads Farm that provides coordinated resources and garden-based teaching expertise to partner schools throughout Whatcom County (see photos on left).

Details: Sat. Feb. 5, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Shuksan Middle School, 2717 Alderwood Ave. in Bellingham. You will find the school garden located on the south side of the school, which can be accessed from the school bus parking lot located off Maplewood Ave.

For more information, contact Shuksan Middle School Garden Educator Deanna Lloyd: Deanna.Lloyd@bellinghamschools.org. §