{"id":135416,"date":"2022-11-15T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/?page_id=135416"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:00:37","slug":"help-your-community-this-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/help-your-community-this-giving-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Your Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your donation will make a difference in our community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Consider supporting our important Master Gardener programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Food Garden Program<\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Did you know? 1 in 10 people in Benton & Franklin counties are going hungry. We build gardens and teach families how to garden. We provide free tools, materials, and continual mentoring. Your donation will be used to buy materials and supplies to help people in need to put nutritious food on their tables.<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Demonstration Garden<\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Did you know? We rely on generous support from our community to maintain this 2 acre demonstration garden that features 26 individual theme gardens. The demonstration garden, located at 1620 S. Union Street in Kennewick, WA is open for the community to enjoy from dawn to dusk, 365 days a year.<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Educational Outreach<\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Did you know? We have an active community educational outreach program. Educating the public, especially children, is the core element of all the Master Gardener Programs. Your donation will help us provide community education and outreach to adults and youth through classes at our Demonstration Garden and at local schools and non profits such as the Boys and Girls clubs and Head Start.<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Additional Programs<\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Did you know? We staff plant clinics at our office to answer community plant problems and gardening questions. We work with youth at the Juvenile Justice Center, helping them learn to give back to their community and gain skills they can use in the future. We distribute free seeds to the community through our Plant A Row program, to encourage people to grow food to donate to our local food banks. Giving just a little can help a lot in our community.<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Over 14,000 youth and almost 5000 adults<\/span><\/strong> attended classes\/workshops taught by Master Gardeners in 2018-2019.<\/p>\n

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76 food gardens built<\/span><\/strong>
\nin 2018-2019 totaling over 700 garden beds<\/span> built<\/span><\/strong> to date since 2012.<\/p>\n

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Over 6000 pounds of food donated each year<\/span><\/strong> to area food banks for those in need.<\/p>\n

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50 years and counting<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Cultivating plants, people, and communities since 1973<\/span><\/div>\n
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It all began at Washington State University<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A grassroots, sociologic movement that started at Washington State University in 1973 and was emulated across the United States and into Canada and South Korea, the Master Gardener Program is WSU Extension\u2019s flagship volunteer program.\u00a0 Learn more about the WSU Extension Master Gardener Program.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We are your neighbors and members of your communities. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our Programs and Priorities inform our efforts to shape healthy communities and a healthy planet. We are actively engaged in teaching research-based gardening and environmental stewardship practices.\u00a0 Learn how you can be a part of the Master Gardener program in Benton & Franklin Counties.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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7102 W. Okanogan Place, Suite 102
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Your donation will make a difference in our community. This Giving Tuesday, consider supporting our important Master Gardener programs. Our Master Gardener Foundation is a Washington State 501(c)(3) charity organization that has earned the Candid Guidestar Platinum Seal of Transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":136544,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135416"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137186,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135416\/revisions\/137186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135416"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=135416"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=135416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}