Community Garden in Sunset Hills is a High School/City/Rotary Club Project.

A group of Lindbergh High School students, the Crestwood Sunset Hills Rotary Club and the City of Sunset Hills have teamed up to build a community garden in Lynstone Park on the corner of Lynstone and Raeburn avenues in Sunset Hills.

The community garden will be maintained by the Lindbergh Interact Club and by local gardeners who pay a small fee for a place to grow vegetables and herbs in the garden.

Part of the garden will be reserved for growing food for local food pantries.

The project is being spearheaded by Amy Richards, a Rotary Club member and the faculty sponsor of the Interact club. Richards also is the coordinator of character education in the Lindbergh School District, as well as a character education teacher at Sperreng and Truman middle schools.

Student Madison Eschbach is the chairperson of the LHS Interact Community Garden.

Richards says the garden ha a threefold purpose: to provide educational opportunities for students, to provide gardening opportunities for the community and to provide fresh produce for those in need.

The Interact Club will provide garden tours for students in Kindergarten through 12th grade from the Lindbergh School District and other schools nd communities, according to Eschbach.

The Interact Club aims to attract those living in local retirement centers who would like to garden, but no longer have the space or means to do so.

The City of Sunset Hills entered the project by donating a portion of Lynstone Park for the garden. Interact student built the raised bed garden plots and will maintain the garden.