Community Garden at the Eagle Nazarene Church
Community Teaching Garden – Resting this Season
Seeking Gardeners for 2026!
Join a thriving community garden! Open to the public and welcoming volunteers, this space is a hands-on learning environment led by experienced gardeners, including the long-time Garden Manager, a Master Gardener who shares knowledge on starting seeds, composting, and regenerative gardening practices.
🍯 A Living Classroom
Learn soil health and microbial life
Experience beekeeping and vermiculture
Contribute to greenhouse projects and sustainable gardening
🥕 Harvest with Purpose
Produce from the garden supports local food pantries, the senior center, women's shelter, and the congregation. Volunteers take home fresh, organic food in exchange for their help!
📢 Garden Update for 2025:
The garden will be taking a sabbatical this season to rest and rejuvenate. While no new plants will be started in the greenhouse, work will continue with weed management, cover cropping, and finishing the greenhouse painting project.
Master Gardeners and community members are still welcome to get involved in preparing the space for future seasons.
📍 Contact: Don Hopper | 📧 gonfishen7@gmail.com
Placeholder for a bit of backstory - an example from the Grow More Good Garden
We are working in partnership with area schools including Fairmont this year, to provide a space for experiential learning, and reconnecting with nature!
Expressing gratitude for the Idaho Episcopal Foundation for providing funding in 2023 for a solid new shed, season extension, tools, potting soil, and essential garden items!
We are grateful to One Stone High School, who provided about 3500 hours of invested energy, effort, and through our collective efforts the majority of the resources to help make this shared garden a place we can all benefit from and enjoy! St. Stephens has generously provided the land for us to cultivate both food and community!
Student experiences in the garden have inspired explorations of the connections between mental health and the natural rhythm of human and non-human relationships with plants. Garden days have included investigations into ecology, biomimicry, plant intelligence, the value of native pollinators, engineering, biology, art, social health/social behavior, and the evolution of humanity since we began practicing agriculture.
It will be exciting to find out what garden days inspire this season!
A brief history of the Grow More Good Garden!
