Mukilteo Community Garden

Find the Mukilteo Community Garden

Entrance is located at:
44th Ave W and 76th St SW in Mukilteo.
Proceed towards the back and then down the asphalt driveway to your right.

31days since
we welcome our new exchange student!

Garden Wish List!

Sturdy Wheelbarrows

Garbage cans

Portable hard drive for
our growing photo album

The Mukilteo Community Garden is well into our second year thanks to the efforts of some of our hard working neighbors! Food bank gardens have been planted and our work parties are as fun as ever so come join in and lend a hand!

We are always in need of more volunteers in the garden regardless of your experience level! Check out our photos and see how much fun it is to donate your time for such an important part of our community! We could always use another pair of hands as there is so much to do. Work party notices can be found here on our calendar, in the community notices section of the Mukilteo Beacon, and posted at the garden. Everyone is welcome...come for an hour or stay for the day...rain or shine!

Community education is also a priority in the Mukilteo Community Garden. Gardening classes, which are being offered monthly through the end of the growing season are a big success with community members! Find out about our classes by clicking on the pea vine below.

Would you like your very own garden plot? We have raised beds ready for planting available! For more information or if you would like to get involved contact the garden bed coordinator by leaving a message at 425-263-8199.

Letter to the Mukilteo Beacon from the MCG:

A grassroots garden blooms

Wednesday, 05 August 2009 11:07

A visitor to the Mukilteo Community Garden last week remarked that the garden looked good and wasn't it nice that the City of Mukilteo had done all this for the garden?

I replied that it was great that the city allows us to use this land to grow food for its citizens, and that the city brought water to the garden, and that staff was helpful with the occasional question.

But, the rest of the garden: arbor, plants, fence, building raised beds, soil, chips, tools and other items have all been DONATED. Everything. Our community is really behind the garden. This is a grassroots, positive people working together, community at its best effort.

The Beacon has kept people aware of the progress in the garden. The stories brought hundreds of people to our work parties. They donated thousands of hours of labor to create and maintain the garden.

As a result, we are teaching people how to grow food and we are currently harvesting vegetables for the food bank.

Education is a key component of our garden. MCG will sponsor a free class on planting for a Winter Harvest from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the garden, located at 44th Avenue West and 76th Street.

Thank you, Mukilteo for your continued help and interest. Thank you Mayor Joe Marine, councilmembers Linda Grafer and Emily Vanderwielen and others from the city who have donated many hours to the garden, on their own time.

Thank you to our supporting partners, the Mukilteo Kiwanis and the Master Gardeners of Snohomish County.

Please visit the garden and check out our progress, plus some of our generous individuals, groups, and Mukilteo businesses at Mukilteogarden.org.

Lois Brown & Lynette Gardiner
MCG President & Vice President

MCG Calendar of Events

GARDEN NEWS FROM THE MCG BOARD!
June 17, 2010
In November 2009 seventy volunteers from Northshore Christian Church and Catalyst Ministries built nearly 1,000 square feet of raised beds for food production in our Mukilteo Community Garden.

In one day these men, women and children transformed the garden. They built and moved fences. They cleared weeds and cut wood. They hauled soil and chips. Our garden team provided a fellowship lunch enjoyed by all.

So it only seems right to share our harvest with Northshore's
Pantry program. Mukilteo City Supervisor Joe Hannan heads the food bank system serving some 65 families.

On Saturday June 12 volunteers from Northshore, lead by
Lisa Parker, harvested 47 pounds of fresh produce and herbs
for the Pantry. We will continue sharing the bounty with our Northshore neighbors.

The City of Mukilteo Mayor Joe Marine, along with Joe Hannan, were the guiding force in starting the garden. They suggested the current site of the garden. City Public Works Department installed water, an entry gate and a surplus garden shed. Both department head Larry Waters and supervisor Marc Larson have been instrumental in the garden success. Both City Councilpersons Linda Grafer and Emily Vanderwielen are volunteers in the garden along with both Joe's, all on their own time. It takes a community to make a garden.

See you in the garden, Lois

Over 1,100lbs of food donated to community food banks since June 2009!

Media

Read USDA Agriculture Secretery Vilsack proclaims August 23-29 as National Community Gardening Week!

Read Community gardens thrive in Snohomish County (The Everett Herald, October 4, 2009)
Read Breaking ground for the Mukilteo Community Garden (Mukilteo Beacon, April 8, 2009)
Listen Mukilteo Community Garden to supply produce to local foodbank (aired on community radio station KSER on April 13, 2009 -- 13 minutes)