The Marin Open Garden Project, a Sponsored Project of
MarinLink, organizes weekly meetings of backyard gardeners to exchange excess
fruit, vegetables and other goodies from their gardens in Mill Valley, Novato, San
Rafael and San Anselmo. Have a tree full of fruit? The Project
will harvest unwanted fruit from your garden and distribute it to other
neighbors and community food banks and soup kitchens. Let us harvest your fruit
trees with our trained volunteers. Need a plot? Let us introduce you to a
gardener with land to share. We are also working to expand the number of
community gardens in Marin County and create a seed library tailored to Marin's
distinctive microclimates. We are also creating a garden tool library from
which residents may borrow tools at no cost.
The Marin Open Garden
Project was founded by Julie Hanft
& Hilary Jeffris. Both
Mill Valley residents, Julie and Hilary are gradulates of the Environmental
Forum of Marin's Sustainable Earth Forum, where they met in 2008. Both are also
graduates of Dominican University's inaugural Sustainable Practices Program.
Hilary is a Marin Master Gardener and a volunteer garden teacher at Park School
in Mill Valley. Julie is an environmental educator with GreenPlay, an
afterschool and summer camp nature awareness program, and the Greenwood School
in Mill Valley. She has certificates from the College of Marin's Natural
History and Environmental Science certificate programs, and is a volunteer
naturalist at the Marin Montessori School in Corte Madera and the Richardson
Bay Audubon Center in Tiburon.
Please contact us at 415.419.4941 or email contact@opengardenproject.org
for more information about the Marin Open Garden Project.
