giving gardens

October is We Give month

October 22, 2020 October is We Give month for the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/Ahrens Park Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. The Giving Gardens is a collaborative effort by local organizations aiming to improve the health of Poweshiek County by providing free access to fresh, local produce. Please consider supporting them today! https://ahrensfamilyfoundation.org/giving-gardens/

2020-11-04T22:08:19-06:00October 22nd, 2020|Giving Gardens|

Imagine Grinnell Cleanup at Marvin Garden

September 28, 2020 Imagine Grinnell board members and friends gathered on Saturday to clean up perennial spaces at Marvin Garden. After getting through multiple layers of burs we successfully moved 4 truck loads to the brush dump! Thanks to everyone who helped!

2020-10-21T19:30:02-06:00September 28th, 2020|Imagine Grinnell|

Marvin Garden donates fresh produce to MICA

September 24, 2020 Donations to MICA yesterday from Marvin Garden! Thank you Poweshiek County Master Gardeners of Iowa and Imagine Grinnell Foundation for your hard work on Marvin Garden.

2020-10-21T17:43:00-06:00September 24th, 2020|Giving Gardens|

Marvin Garden has lots of produce

July 8, 2020

2020-10-08T22:08:23-06:00July 8th, 2020|Giving Gardens|

Giving Gardens Growing Produce to be Shared

June 23, 2020 The community garden project that began in 2013 at Grinnell Regional Medical Center has bloomed into 11 Giving Gardens--nine in the city of Grinnell and two in Brooklyn. The Giving Gardens are a collaborative effort of local organizations and individuals to improve the health of Poweshiek County residents by providing access [...]

Give A Garden

September 20, 2018 Get Into Grinnell Blog (Posted by the Grinnell Chamber of Commerce) Are you familiar with Grinnell's Giving Gardens? The first community Giving Garden was started in the summer of 2013 at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. The gardens were developed as a part of a community transformation grant, and are intended to give the [...]

AHRENS GIVING GARDEN EXPANDING

June 14, 2018 Grinnell's array of giving gardens are yielding fresh produce available to all. Several deliveries of produce have already been made to Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) to be made available to families using the MICA food bank. Many of the ongoing gardens are at locations where volunteers do the planting, tending and [...]

GIVING GARDEN ADDED AT AHRENS PARK

June 26, 2017 Grinnell ended 2016 with four giving gardens, and the 2017 gardening season has seen the addition of three more gardens, including one in Ahrens Park, as well as an increase in the people watching over those gardens. Imagine Grinnell will host a bike tour of giving gardens on Saturday, July 8. [...]

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