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  The Wellness Guide Presents
             
Neighborhood Garden Project
Neighborhood Garden Project
Planting Seeds of Sustainability
Growing Community

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Member Benefits | Enrollment Types | Member Agreements

Member Benefits: Comprehensive Support Package

  1. On-Site Garden Planning Permaculture Consultation with Scott McGuire Sustainable Living Consultant, Co-creative Gardening and Farming Instructor
  2. Free enrollment for one person in The Wellness Guide’s Sustainable Living Series Workshop: Garden Essentials: How to Transform Your Lawn into a Thriving Organic Garden
  3. 10% off garden services and products from The Neighborhood Garden Project’s affiliates: Organic heirloom seeds and starts, Raised bed installation, Gardening and Permaculture services, Vermaculture supplies, Gourmet edible mushroom gardens, more!
  4. Free copy of The Ashland Garden Handbook: Local Growing Guide for Abundant Gardens
  5. Monthly potluck celebrations, learning opportunities, and special festivities for participants
  6. Choose how your want to garden:
    ~ Create your own group and garden location with friends, neighbors or relatives
    ~ Be networked with others to share a garden: garden sites in yards of participants with space
    ~ Garden privately in your home garden or private Ashland or Talent community garden plot

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Enrollment:

Group Membership: $45-65/ household *sliding scale
Grow a garden cooperatively: be matched with others to share a garden with or create your group

Individual Garden Membership: $65-85 *sliding scale
Garden privately while still enjoying the benefits package and participants’ community events

10 hours of work-exchange per household: Your choice of tasks and dates of service:
now-October

Partial scholarships available

*Sliding scale enrollment supports the projects’ scholarship fund as well as Giving Gardens A Way, and Transition Town Ashland: local sustainability resilience

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Neighborhood Garden Project Participant Agreements:

  • Use Organic gardening practices

  • Follow through on commitments that you choose to make to your group, if you are gardening cooperatively in a group with other households

  • Donate some of your harvest to The Wellness Guide’s Annual Locally Grown Food Drive

  • Try to save at least one type of seed, share some with Neighborhood Garden Project

  • Choose Liaison/ Point person for your group to be the contact person for The Neighborhood Garden Project organizers and to help with coordination in your group

  • Keep a group garden journal or captioned photo album and bring it to share at end of season Neighborhood Garden Project celebration

  • Questionnaires: Brief questionnaires will be emailed occasionally to receive your feedback, ideas, needs, etc. Participants agree to fill out these simple and short questionnaires and email them back in a timely manner. The Neighborhood Garden Project was created to grow community and local food security, your feedback is essential so that project organizers can continue to improve and fine-tune this program to best meet the needs of our community- thank you!

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Scott McGuire is an organic gardener, farmer, and landscaper as well as a workshop leader and design consultant for numerous projects nationwide. A graduate of Alan Chadwick's Farm and Garden Project at UC Santa Cruz, he incorporates Permaculture, Biodynamics, Findhorn, Perelandra and the Anastasia teachings into his approach to the plant kingdom.

 

  
 
 
 

The Neighborhood Garden Project * Transition Town Ashland * The Village Farm * Synergy Seeds Angel’s Organic Farm * Siskiyou Permaculture Resources Guild (SPRG) * Giving Gardens A Way Siskiyou Sustainable Cooperative: Community Supported Agriculture and Organic Seed Growing SOU- Ecology Center of The Siskiyous * OSU Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center Horse Creek Biodynamic Farm Community * Three Sisters Planting * The Spiral Living Center Wilderness Charter School * Dynamic Growing Systems * Tom Ward: Permaculture Education Denny’s Community Farm and Garden Resource: Garden Soil and Compost * Bellview Grange Webspirit Community NexChange Currency * Acorn Harvest Cooperative * Seven Seeds Farm The Wellness Guide * Grady Barrels: Water Catchment * Scott McGuire: White Sage Gardens Seed Savers Bioregion 78 * Within Earthly Bounds Farm Internship Program * Natural Yards Ashland School District- Food Service, Sodexo * Neighborhood Harvest * The Frog Farm The Eagle Mill Farm Educational Project * Food Angels- formerly Food For People Plus many more local food projects, businesses, teachers, and You!

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