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Bethel garden was established to create a community space focused on better nutritional and emotional health. It provides space, tools, knowledge and a place to experiment to anyone who wants to participate.
An annual garden was planted in 2024, which was expanded in 2025 in partnership with Wisconsin Food Forests. Over time, we will be adding to the food forest with more perennial plants that will provide food indefinitely. We will also keep the annual garden, and may also provide individual plots if there is enough interest.
Participation can be anything from sitting on a bench and looking at butterflies, to weeding, watering, harvesting, helping with construction, etc.
The food and flowers produced are available to anyone who wants to harvest them, with the excess going to the Elkhorn Food Pantry. If you visit the garden, please leave with something in your hand.
Bethel garden is intended to be a place for users to experiment, make mistakes and learn. We encourage you to take cuttings, collect seeds and suggest new things to try in the garden.
What is a food forest?
It is a gardening technique which mimics a forest. It has canopy, understory, vining and root plants growing together and interacting with each other. Food forests are composed of plants that produce at least one product used as human food.
As our food forest acquires more plants and matures, it will produce a wide variety of edible products, primarily from perennial plants that require less work than an annual garden.
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