Come Grow With Us!
The garden on the southwest corner of the Roosevelt Center property has a long history, dating back to when the building was still active as a school. Over the years, many community volunteers and local kids have dirtied their hands in the garden’s soil. Recently, we revitalized the garden. In 2024-2025, with the help of our youth and adult volunteers, we:
- Redesigned the garden’s layout.
- Installed solar panels that help cut down on the building’s carbon footprint and power bill.
- Installed an irrigation system.
- Installed reclaimed redwood decking as edging around our raspberry, currant, and strawberry patches as well as along the perennial garden border.
- Built five small redwood herb boxes that are waiting to be sealed for moisture as soon as spring and weather above 60 degrees allows.
- Installed and filled two redwood clematis boxes with hog fence arching over main garden entry gate.
- Built and planted perennial bee and butterfly garden along Roosevelt Center wall.
- Built a storefront frame for use at the Farmer’s Market and a ramp for our shed.
Our team at the Youth and Art Garden is eager to continue rehabilitating the garden. We hope to grow enough produce to share with our community and to create a well-maintained, nourishing garden that will attract gardeners for years into our future.
We still need to:
- Install birdhouses we’ve built for bluebirds and wrens.
- Trim and shape ash trees along our west fence.
- Install seating in the gathering area of our garden.
- Build and install a mulch bin.
- Paint the chair-lift frames that support our solar panels.
Would you like to help? Please contact Alexis at alexis@rlacf.org or (406) 446-2820.
