An amazing community service project combined the efforts of several of our partner organizations to enhance our education programs and site. The result was 12 large raised planter beds to be filled with herbs, vegetables, pollinator-friendly flowers, and an heirloom dahlia collection. Using a basic design and layout configured by UC Davis Extension Master Gardeners, volunteers from the Young…

The Elk Grove Garden Club, led by dahlia expert Mary Adams-Wiley, donated their time and expertise to design and plant our heirloom dahlia garden as a community service project.This volunteer project honors Lester Nicolaus (1903-1978), an avid gardener who supplied his family with fresh produce and flowers for three generations. He was particularly proud of his dahlia garden. The Garden Club…