Demonstration Garden
Ahtanum Youth Park, 1000 Ahtanum Rd, Yakima, WA 98903

In the spring of 2005, a group of Yakima County Master Gardeners began a demonstration garden to teach local gardeners. It is located at the Ahtanum Youth Park, which has historical significance in our valley. It was once a Farm Labor Camp where people lived in small cabins and worked the agriculture fields. The Yakima Valley has rich soil and is famous for it's commercial production of many crops, including apples, pears, cherries, hops, and alfalfa just to name a few.

The demonstration garden will have four distinctly different areas when completed. In just one growing season, we have begun the Victorian Garden, the Children's Garden and are breaking ground in the spring of 2006 with the Raised Beds/Xeric Garden. Also this spring we will be creating our entrance and central area. We have all the irrigation installed and have built a garden shed.

We meet weekly at the site to plant, work on pathways, create sitting areas, install birdhouses, paint, and, of course, to weed. We have already had three classes at the site including some with children. We look forward to having many more of them in the future.

As areas are worked on / changed, there will be additional pictures added. Be sure to check back to see the progress.

Demonstration Garden Photos up to 5/30/06 (HTML documents)