Master Gardener Program
Erika Johnson, Program Coordinator
erika.d.johnson@wsu.edu
(564) 397-5738
Welcome
Get Started
Places to Share
Resources
Giving Feels Good
Your Photos
Welcome!
If you’ve been wondering how you could help your community during this difficult time, Share the Bounty may be the program for you. We are calling on you, the home gardener, to share food from your garden to help alleviate some of the food insecurity in our community made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To join our community of gardeners helping others please register below. You’ll be offered research-based garden education and options for places to share your bounty.
Are you a gardener who likes to share your home-grown fruits and veggies? Do you have room in your yard to add some garden boxes or containers? Not sure what to do with your extra zucchini? Share the Bounty!
This program is brought to you in collaboration with Clark County SNAP-Ed. For more information: Ringo Nickel – Nutrition Educator.
Don’t have space for a garden?
How about growing produce in containers or renting a community garden plot? Check out our gardening resources.
Get Started
Join a community of gardeners helping others by sharing your home-grown produce. We’ll provide research-based garden education. All you have to do is provide some garden space and some of your time growing delicious food.
To participate:
- Register your garden.
- Grow some produce to share and deliver it.
- Report what you donated/shared on the appropriate forms:
May, June, July, August, September and October. Tracking what you share will help us to measure and demonstrate our collective impact. - Share your thoughts, stories, and pictures. Doing so will serve to inspire others and help draw in more participants!
Places to Share
Resources
Beet Planting
Cover Crops
Eggplant Planting
Onion Planting
Pepper Planting
Tomatoes — choosing varieties for the home garden
Tomato Planting
Giving Feels Good
| Before this effort, 75% of participants had never donated to our emergency food system. |
Read what gardeners all over Clark County are saying. Send us your thoughts on what sharing the bounty means to you.
“Too many lemon cucumbers last year. And they are so yummy I want others to enjoy them.“
“Happy to share any extra food I grow with the community.“
“We are worried about so many people who are out of work due to COVID-19, and who don’t have access to food, especially healthy, local fruits and vegetables.“
“I expanded my garden to increase the amount of vegetables I could grow this year hoping for EXACTLY this kind of opportunity.“
“There is a need and we can fill that need. So why wouldn’t we all take part?!“
| Clark county’s emergency food system appreciates your gifts. Thank you! |
Share Your Photos
Growing and sharing the bounty!
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| WSU Clark County Master Gardener Program 1919 NE 78th Street • Vancouver, WA 98665 (564) 397-5738 |
