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By Jessica Ansley

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GROWING FORWARD: MEL CHURCH’S FRESH TAKE ON ISLANDWOOD’S GARDEN

Looking back on our most recent summer camp season, it felt fitting to reflect on how much we’ve “grown” by speaking with the remarkable Mel Church

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By Jessica Ansley

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WADE IN THE GARDEN

At IslandWood, Wade was created to serve as the food waste station where School Overnight Program students would sort and weigh all the food waste after each meal in the dining hall.

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By Leah Anderson

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FROM THE GARDEN: SPUDS OF JOY!

Here at IslandWood, we’ve been busy tending to our lovely garden, and guess what? We’ve just planted our potatoes!

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By Jessica Ansley

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WHY SEED BOXES?

The IslandWood garden is an excellent example of the diversity we see in guests we invite to IslandWood.

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By Jessica Ansley

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Celebrating our 20th Anniversary, Featuring Heide Felton, Deb Krieger and our Garden Classroom

Over the years the garden has provided students, teachers, and guests the opportunities to be a part of the food cycle,

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By Jessica Ansley

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ADDING CHICKENS TO ISLANDWOOD’S GARDEN CLASSROOM!

February brings a new chapter to the IslandWood garden!

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AN UPDATE FROM THE GARDEN CLASSROOM

This summer we welcomed Megan Gordinier as our new Garden Manager. Learn more about her, and her work in IslandWood’s Garden Classroom, here.

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Moment of Discovery: Cultivating Reciprocity and Stewardship in the Garden Classroom

Allow me to introduce you to my new favorite plant — a small, bright pink, nutritious, grooved tuber from the Andes called oca. When Jen and Mónica, Islandwood's garden educators, first told me about the opportunity to teach with this plant, I was instantly intrigued.

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From Lushootseed to Portuguese, A New Garden Sign Says Welcome

The IslandWood garden welcomes all students with wide open arms, always ready to nurture and guide. The garden’s warm welcome is felt in its winding paths and low lying beds, in its generous ability to feed us all year round.

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IslandWood acknowledges that we live and work on the ancestral land of the Coast Salish people, who have been stewards of this region's land and waters since time immemorial, and who continue to protect these lands and waters for future generations, as promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855, the Treaty of Point No Point of 1855, and the Treaty of Medicine Creek of 1854.

While the majority of our work takes place on Suquamish (suq̀ʷabš) and Duwamish (dxʷdɐwʔabʃ) land, we also conduct programs on the land of the Snohomish (sduhúbʃ), Puyallup (spuyaləpabš), Muckleshoot (buklshuhls), Skokomish (sqoqc’bes), and S’Klallam (nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm) peoples.

IslandWood is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Our tax ID number is 31-1654076.

4450 Blakely Ave. NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 206.855.4300