Master Gardener Foundation of Kitsap County

Growing your own fresh food is fun, can improve your health, and is a great family activity! 

You can select what your donation will support from four options via the "Designation" line during the Donation process:

Raised Bed Replacement Fund:  Every growing season Master Gardeners make repairs to our numerous individual garden beds within our four demonstration gardens.  This fund will specifically set aside monies for replacement raised beds of various construction techniques.  Our demonstration gardens are located at Anna Smith Children's Garden,  Blueberry Park, Heritage Garden at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, and Raab Park Youth Garden.

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Garden Shed Replacement Fund:  Over the years, each of our gardens have repaired, added new, or otherwise performed maintenance on these critical garden structures.  Several of our gardens have sheds that are approaching the end of their useful life.  This fund is designed to have money available to build new sheds when they are needed.

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New South Sound garden:  your donation will be set aside so that once planning is complete for a new Master Gardener demonstration garden in the south end of Kitsap County, the Foundation will have the funds available to support the project! 

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General Fund: to help provide seeds, soil, garden bed maintenance items for our demonstration gardens; and prepare for summer children’s education programs;

In case you missed it, throughout 2023, Kitsap County Master Gardeners (MGs) were able to:

PROVIDED 15,875 hours volunteer time:  Equating to $504,825 labor savings for Kitsap County for informed public outreach on sustainable gardening and environmental protection.  (National volunteer hourly rate $31.80). This represents the efforts of 29 new certified MGs, 44 Emeritus MGs; total 211 certified MGs for 2023.

INDIVIDUALIZED ASSISTANCE: Over 3500 citizens received individualized help at 241 diagnostic clinics where 2535 specific garden related questions were answered by MG volunteers.

ADULT WORKSHOPS: MGs taught 92 workshops, demos or field days for 1551 adults on various gardening topics.  

YOUTH WORKSHOPS: MGs taught 15 workshops, demos or field days for 534 youth.

ORGANIC GARDENING CLASSES: 118 people took the series of 12 day Organic Vegetable Gardening Classes taught by 7 Master Gardener volunteer educators.

ORGANIC PRODCE DONATIONS:  4099.55 pounds of produce grown with organic methods donated to 4 local food banks from 4 designated learning Gardens. MG volunteer educators led & coordinated 4 demonstration gardens

LOCAL PARKS:  207 acres of local parks were enhanced, restored and/or preserved by MGs removing noxious weeds and planting natives for enhancement of salmon spawning streams and forest land.

We hope that you will be a partner in our important work!