Category Sharon Ballard Community Garden Grants

Sharon Ballard Community Garden Grants: Established in memory of Pierce County Master Gardener Sharon Ballard, this program aims to amplify Sharon’s interest in community gardens.

Grandview Community Garden

Grandview Community Garden, Grandview WA The Grandview Community Garden is a multicultural garden with members using practices from their ancestors to grow vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs. In addition, they grow many species of medicinal plants and pollinators to attract bees.…

Orchard and Vine Community Garden

Orchard and Vine Community Garden, 45th and Orchard Streets , Tacoma , WA  The Orchard and Vine Community Garden is a neighborhood community garden of 22 plots.  The membership volunteers to be on a team that has specific duties in different areas…

Harvest House Community Garden

Harvest House Community Garden, 25713 70th Ave E, Graham WA 98338 The Harvest House Community Garden grows vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers at no cost for people in the local community. Food is harvested fresh for each individual visitor during a tour around…

Mountain Community Garden

Mountain Community Garden, 113 Rainier Ave N., Eatonville  The Eatonville area is considered a “food desert.”  The Garden’s primary purpose is to provide nutritious, organic produce to the local food bank, to educate the community on organic growing and environmentally…

SenCo Community Garden Space

SenCo Community Garden Space, South end, Tacoma The Ballard Grant supported installing a Wildflower garden with flowers, grasses and trees, making a sustainable garden for pollinators and wildlife – to benefit neighboring vegetable plots around this area which often have Food…

Red Barn Youth Center

Red Barn Youth Center The Ballard Grant helped to reinvigorate a garden at the Red Barn Youth Center.  Funding and Master Gardener support was targeted at providing irrigation, a planter and berries to the garden.

JBLM McChord Garden

JBLM McChord Garden Partnering with GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty www.goodgrub.org ) who added four new raised beds to the fully utilized McChord Garden on the JBLM site, the SBCG Grant provided additional funding to fence in the new beds to…

St. Nicholas Catholic School

St. Nicholas Catholic School Adding community gardening to their STEM program, St. Nicholas Catholic was granted funds and support to help build raised beds so that students can experience hands on, the rewards of growing food.