Discovery Park Community Garden

Thursday, August 14 · 7:00–8:00 PM
Discovery Park Garden
📍 2121 E Lake Hazel Rd, Meridian, ID 83642

Come tour the Discovery Park Community Garden, where the Meridian Co-op Gardeners are expanding their vision of what’s possible—from one neighborhood to the next.

This site represents the second branch of the Meridian Co-op Gardeners, started two years ago by Chris Verkerk and Shauna Miller, who first gardened at the Kleiner Park site. With experience, vision, and a hands-on approach, they brought the Meridian Co-op model to Discovery Park, where a new cohort of gardeners is learning how to work with the land.

Now in its second growing season, Discovery Park Garden is steadily evolving.

This tour will highlight:

• Starting a new community garden in an emerging park

• Building soil and water systems from the ground up

• Using worm castings and compost teas to activate life in depleted soil

• Seasonal adaptations and ongoing layout tweaks

• What’s working—and what still needs time

There may also be free materials available (like seeds, feedbags, peat pots/Jiffy pots)—bring a tote if you'd like to bring something home.

Dress for hot temps, we’re still not through those days yet this year!

Interested in helping out?
They could still use a few more gardeners. While there are no scheduled volunteer days yet, Chris welcomes one-on-one connections.