Garden club offers opportunity for students

EAST COUNTY — Garden to Table, a project by the Community Garden Club of Camas Washougal, is benefiting students in two programs at Washougal High School: the Washougal Adult Transition Program and Washougal High School Culinary Arts. Garden to Table provides job skills training for the transition program and supplies fresh ingredients to the culinary arts classes. WATP provides skills training to help students ages 18-21 with special needs transition from school to independent living and preparation for employment. Students completed greenhouse repairs, planted seeds, built trestles and set up an irrigation system. Students from both programs will tend the beds and then help harvest the produce. Garden to Table started in 2017 with $500 from the garden club to begin getting old garden beds back in planting condition. They received an additional $1,100 grant last year. “It was wonderful for the students to see value and something of a reward for their hard work,” WATP teacher Jessica Nickels said in a news release.