Volunteers dug into the Greenwood Park community garden project Sept. 25 when they spent four hours on a warm Saturday tearing down old fences and readying the lot for a new garden for the park on North 87th Street between Evanston Avenue North and Fremont Avenue North.

The work party, organized by Vision Greenwood Park, consisted of 26 adults and children who pitched in to cut out overgrown bushes and weeds and dig out and take down fences bordering an existing lot that will soon become part of the park.

Vision Greenwood Park recently received a Neighborhood Matching Fund grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to support construction of the community garden, which is designed to be universally accessible and create a space where teens from the North Seattle Boys & Girls Club can work next to members of the Greenwood Senior Center and neighbors can grow local, organic produce for themselves and the Greenwood Food Bank.

“It was great to see dads with their daughters shoveling out the fence posts and working with their neighbors," Mike Stringer, Vision Greenwood Park chair, said in a press release. "This is exactly why we are doing this – to meet our neighbors and build something wonderful for our community.”

The next work party will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 24.