Editor’s note: Raney, our Community Gardens Coordinator, penned this blog post as she prepares to wrap up her time with Petaluma Bounty. Raney began her time at the Bounty as Farm Assistant and took on the Community Gardens Coordinator as soon as the position opened, to our team’s delight. The work Raney started in the gardens will live on, and we are grateful and excited for what’s coming for the program and for Raney.
Happy Spring La Tercera Community and Friends!
I have some very exciting news regarding the rebuilding of La Tercera Community Garden. The amazing non-profit, Girls Garage, in Berkeley, California, will be designing and constructing the new garden starting in June 2024.
Emily Pilloton-Lam, the executive director of Girls Garage, and Augusta Sitney, the shop and project manager, visited La Tercera a couple of weeks ago. They decided that the space, construction, and design needs for the community garden will be a great fit for their 2024 summer camps!
Girls Garage is a nonprofit design and construction school for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 9 to 18. The organization provides free and low-cost programs in carpentry, welding, architecture, engineering, and activist art to a diverse community of 185 students per year, according to its website. Go to Girlsgarage.org to learn all about this great nonprofit.
For La Tercera, Girls Garage Summer camp participants will construct 12 raised garden boxes, two of which will be ADA accessible, a shade structure, Adirondack chairs, and a picnic table. We are extraordinarily grateful for this partnership with Girls Garage, which will make the garden space at La Tercera flourish. Over the next two months, a lot of work will need to be done to prepare the garden for Girls Garage to place the beds and build the shade structure. If you are interested in getting involved with the rebuild, please email communitygardens@petalumabounty.org.
Raney Brooks, Community Gardens Coordinator