Who’s ready to volunteer today for the garden cause? All that’s required are 3 mouse-clicks to support our contest entry here: http://tcfcu.meltwaterrise.com/entry/604557 

The bigger, better-funded nonprofits in the contest (an animal welfare org and a substance abuse treatment foundation) have really surged over the past two days pushing our entry back into third place, but I know you gardeners are itching to help. Thanks for voting today and every day through October 31st.

If we win, we’ll use the $5000 grant to fund our Sow It Forward program which supports garden projects like the one featured in this photo. This particular garden happens to be in Concrete, Washington. It caught our eye last year and caught itself a grant for being an exemplary community/school collaboration. The garden occupies three previously unused municipal lots and is surrounded by a perimeter fence; it contains a gazebo and 22 raised beds available for rent on an annual basis. The vacant beds are used to grow produce for the Concrete Food Bank and for clients at the East County Resource Center. In addition, the garden contains a Children’s Garden section where youth under age 18 may garden for free, and a Memory Garden area where people may pause to remember loved ones lost.