Kootenai-Shoshone
Soil & Water Conservation District
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Board Meeting are held the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 9:00 am at the office located at 7830 Meadowlark Way Suite C-1
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83815
Gathering Garden
The Gathering Garden is located in Kootenai County Idaho. 21.4% of families in Kootenai County with children aged 5-17 live below the poverty level. There exists a great need in our community for fresh produce for low income families and free educational opportunities for the public as a whole.
The Gathering Garden has been in operation for six years and is a model urban agriculture teaching farm/garden open to the public annually. In addition to public education efforts, produce from the Gathering Garden is cleaned and packaged for distribution to low income families and distributed via Coeur d'Alene Community Action Partnership Food Bank.
The Gathering Garden is dependent annually upon outside funding to support the growing, harvesting and distribution of garden goods to low income families as well as the many free educational classes and workshops held at the garden seasonally. In addition, the garden manager is responsible for crop selection, planting, irrigation, maintenance, harvesting, distribution of garden goods and the harvest and storage of seeds. Further, the garden manager organizes and oversees all service learning activities in the garden and student interactive gardening experiences.
In the spring of 2019 KEA will install drip irrigation lines throughout the Gathering Garden in order to decrease time spent hand watering and increase on-site food production.
We currently have (3) three workshops scheduled at the Gathering Garden: