Catalyst Park community garden beds

WSU Mason County Master Gardeners are starting the 2023 season at their Catalyst Park garden, at the corner of 8th Street and Harvard Avenue in Shelton. This multipurpose space serves as a demonstration garden and houses a community garden, a greenhouse and a food bank garden that donates 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of produce to The Saints’ Pantry Food Bank every year.

This past winter, Master Gardeners worked hard to improve the community garden beds. The area now showcases a variety of raised-bed gardening methods. A new, more efficient irrigation system also is being installed to reduce costs an...