Vegetable Garden | Volunteer Profile: Gardens Serve As Welcome To Hospice
The gardens
“We would like to introduce people to the Madrone Hospice Gardens,” hospice volunteer Jim Finses said recently. “The gardens are trying to welcome you in to the hospice. It’s all about the patients, and the gardens go into the overall quality for the patients here.” “The vegetable garden was started after the hospice house was built in 1999,”Hospice Executive Director Audrey Flower added. “It’s planted and maintained by volunteers and the hospice staff and used as a kitchen garden.” Grapes, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, squash, sunflowers, sage, lavender, mint, oregano, etc., are grown there.
The volunteers
Jim and Judy Finses are among the some 135 individuals who volunteer their time in any number of ways for Madrone Hospice. The couple works in the hospice house gardens. “We also have a very dedicated board of directors and volunteers who work with our patients here at the house and in patients’ homes,” Jim said. “There is a group of volunteers who
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