Dunning Garden has a sandbox!!! The project started with a donation made by one of our gardeners, Bev, in honor of her son, Tyfian. We replaced an old raised bed that had rotting wood and built a new bed, filled it with sand and the kids jumped in! It is a go-to spot for them whenever they are at the garden. Thank you Bev, for inspiring this idea and thank you ChangeX, for the funding that enabled us to complete the project.

We managed to construct two raised beds, fill them with soil and transplant one gorgeous goldenrod before the weather turned too cold to work outside.

We managed to construct two raised beds, fill them with soil and transplant one gorgeous goldenrod before the weather turned too cold to work outside.

Dunning Community Garden is an organic garden established in 2012 with 20 raised beds. We now have 75 beds, a charity garden and a Bhutanese farmers' garden. We would like to build a pollinator garden in the open space adjacent to our garden. Our goal is to create a natural landscape that will attract a variety of pollinators and provide them with food and shelter.

Although the land we will use is largely a little bit of soil and an enormous amount of crushed brick and cement, it already supports a variety of wild grasses and flowers. We will plant a variety of Midwest plants that have high pollinator value and will bloom at various times throughout the growing season.

We will spend about $1,200 on wood to build the raised beds, soil to fill them and three hoses. We will use about $200 to buy plants. We will also transplant some flowers from the Community Garden to the pollinator beds.

We are grateful for this opportunity to start a project we have long wanted to do.