A Trellis for Jo

What an amazing day it was. Brent Bellamy from the Community Boat Project and his crew of ten hard workers arrived at the Quimper Grange Food Bank Garden loaded down with a beautiful handmade arbor and gorgeous bench, complete with a hand-forged plaque honoring Jo Yount, founding mother of the garden. Five QG Garden volunteers joined them to achieve this beautiful installation.

In addition to designing, planning and building the arbor and bench, the CBP students hand-carved beautiful flowers and sunny images to decorate this arbor, the wood all scrap pieces from their supplies. The wood on the very substantial bench contains end pieces also used to make improvements on the schooner Adventuress.

This is not the first project that this crew has built for Food Bank Growers' gardens. The Boat School Garden (just uphill from the CBP shop) was gifted a lovely wash station that they built. Blessings Garden (Umatilla St) also received a wash station built to order. And Fairwinds Garden received a much-needed storage shed.

The Community Boat Project "equips teens and young adults with the critical skills needed for personal and professional success. We unanimously affirm with two thumbs up that they have brilliantly achieved this with their creations.