Contribute

Yes, you can contribute to the Foothills Learning Garden! Here are a few ways:

• Participate in a Fundraiser. We have Eat Think Grow garden totes available! More about them here. We'd love to run into you around town showing off your love for our garden. 
• Donate. 
• We love used tools -- drop yours off at the garden when you don't need them anymore! 
• We shop at Rick's Gardens, Home Depot, Lowe's, and Don's Garden Shop. We appreciate gift cards from any of those stores. 
• If you have a hose sprayer/nozzle attachment that you love and you want to share your enthusiasm by buying one for us, we're game! We've yet to find one that can withstand the heavy use it gets in our garden. Maybe we need one like yours!
• We're also looking for a few wooden picnic tables to give our students a place to work when they're cooking, sorting, and starting seeds. Are you about to replace your old one? Bring it to the garden! We'll make it sturdy and even sand it down and refinish it if we need to.
• We'd love to have a shed. Per school district requirements, it must be either a Tuff Shed or it must be built by a district-approved contractor. Maybe you can help make that happen!
• We're considering installing some sort of automated irrigation system. Could you design it? Do you have access to irrigation parts at a discount? We would appreciate your help!
• Rent a plot. Rental agreements are available here. Cost is $70 for April-November, 2014.
• Work in the garden. We need adults who are willing to help create (and teach) lessons using the garden. If you have an interest or background in education and you are a gardener, you could make a huge difference here. Contact the school coordinator at foothillsgarden@gmail.com to discuss how you might be able to help.
• Be on the Garden Committee. The Garden Committee needs adults who are willing to meet once a year and email ocassionally to plan and maintain the garden. We will fulfill teacher requests for help with lessons or for specific seeds or plants that they need, guide the students who participate in Garden Club, and organize annual fundraisers to maintain the garden's finances.
• Guide the CSD portion of the garden. Our garden is unique because it aims to incorporate CSD (communication and social disorder) friendly design principles as well as an additional soothing area especially for our CSD students. Are you familiar with Autism or other communication disorders? Could you help design the CSD area? Could you design a map or placards that will help CSD students feel at home in the garden? If so, contact the garden coordinator at foothillsgarden@gmail.com.