THE COMMUNITY GARDEN

The Wausau Community Garden, sponsored by the Hunger Prevention Team, is located along the Rib River, near 48th Avenue, on seventeen acres of land donated by the city of Wausau for two years. Two hundred families garden individual plots. In exchange for their plot, families are asked to give back to the community by sharing some of their produce with those that do not have a plot and patronize the local food pantries. Gathering nights are scheduled to facilitate this produce donation. In 2000, over 20,000 pounds of fresh produce were donated to local food pantries. The garden yielded approximately 185,000 pounds of produce valued at $240,000.

The Community Garden has been very popular, especially among the Hmong community. Volunteers from Attic Corrections, Reynold's Group Home, Lincoln Hills, Horace Mann and the Neighbor's Place have helped in many ways such as weeding, watering, and fence building. As more people become aware that the garden exists, the Hunger Prevention Team is hopeful that more groups will want to participate, making the garden a true "Community" Garden in every sense of the word.

For more information about the Community Garden, call Deb Imrie, our garden coordinator at the Neighbor's Place, 715-845-1966.

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