Don Bladow is a 45+ year Alaskan, a UAA graduate, and a Master Gardner. In 2015 he developed a 9,000 square foot garden at Hope Lutheran Church providing charity food. Through his work plus many volunteers, Bean’s Café, Lutheran Food Pantry, Downtown Soup Kitchen and other nonprofits receive his bountiful harvest.

If you admire direct and immediate social action, Don will speak to your heart: dirty fingernails are an honorable badge of his ministry to the less fortunate among us. Hear about his initial concept in 2015 to serve the hungry, which began a journey of planning and developing over 9,000 sq. ft. of garden at Hope Lutheran Church.