If you have a “Green thumb” or an interest in growing your own produce or even flowers, the Atlantic Parks and Recreation Department is offering you the opportunity to do so, through the use of one of 10 raised garden bed boxes in the Community Gardens at Mollett Park. The park is located at 1020 E. 3rd Street Place, which curves off of N. Mulberry Street and has a cul-de-sac. Parks and Rec Director Bryant Rasmussen says when you rent one of the boxes. you can plant just about anything, and they even give you some of the tools needed to make your garden grow.

The raised gardens are designed to show people they can become self-sufficient by raising their own food for themselves and/or others.

The raised beds allow nutrients in the soil to be stored in the box, and they allow for proper soil drainage.

The boxes can be rented for $35 each.

Rasmussen says a couple of the main rules are, to make sure what you’re growing doesn’t encroach on a neighboring garden box, and that any use of chemicals not be sprayed or drift onto adjacent boxes. For more rules and regulations, or more information, contact Bryant Rasmussen, Atlantic Parks & Rec Director, at (712)-243-3542.