East Winston Community Garden

Handicapped Accessible Beds These should be integrated in the same area or close to the rest of the hugel beds. This will contribute to the community integration and help you serve more of your community members. The optimal reach zone for wheelchair users is 20"-40 high.

Arbors These allow opportunity to grow fruits and vegetables vertically. Can be used to delineate walking paths along the garden. These will provide shade in the garden area and will retain moisture in the soil.

More Plants Strawberry Growing strawberries vertically. This is much more space-efficient than growing them the regular way, and could also be at least partially handicapped accessible. The optimal reach zone for wheelchair users is 20"40 high.

Community Building / Learning Events -Teen Farmers Market -Canning Classes -Cooking classes -Conventional and natural building classes -Cooking Classes -Talent Show -Storytelling

Resources Canning - The National Center for Home Food Preservation: nchfp.uga.edu - Ball Fresh Preserving: freshpreserving.com - Pick Your Own: pickyourown.org Raised Beds - Hugel Beds richsoil.com/hugelkultur - Lasagna Gardening: sustainable-gardening-tips.com - Square foot gardening: squarefootgardening.org Grants - Fiskars Project Orange Thumb: For community gardens. Prizes include $5,000 in cash and garden tools, and complete garden makeover. Application deadline is 12/31/13

Resources Composting - Journeytoforever.org/compost_make.html - Easy-homesteading.blogspot.ca/2013/01/how-to-build-ultimatecompost-bin-diy.html - Gardentenders.com/projects/973 Materials - Craigslist.com - Freecycle.org - Habitat for Humanity Stores