Hazel Dell — Rain couldn’t keep 44 Clark College students from working at the Hazel Dell School and Community Garden earlier this month. Students from Kristen Myklebust’s and Veronica Brock’s Food and Your Health classes helped prep the garden for spring planting.
Twenty-five students from Myklebust’s class pruned, transplanted, weeded and spread compost on March 2. A week later, 19 students from Brock’s class prepared the butterfly/hummingbird garden by removing overgrown plants to make way for new plants, and repaired the compost bins, which were damaged in winter snow.
Washington State University Master Gardeners Barbara Nordstrom, Bobbi Bellomy and Amanda Slyman and volunteer Kathryn Boden led the work parties.
“This garden would not be successful without the work of Clark College students,” Bellomy said in a release from the gardeners. The garden has 25 raised growing beds for community members, and it costs $20 for the growing season.
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