Clallam County Master Gardeners Jeanette Stehr-Green and Laurel Moulton will share lessons from Growing Healthy, a gardening project designed to help low-income people with or at risk for diabetes eat healthier, at the 2014 International Master Gardener Conference in South Korea, Sept. 25-27.

Moulton will travel to South Korea to present the paper to Master Gardeners from across the United States, South Korea, Japan and Germany.

Growing Healthy was a 15-week pilot in which participants learned about vegetable gardening, working side-by-side with Clallam County Master Gardeners to tend plots at the 5th Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. The project also included nutritional messages and cooking sessions.

Stehr-Green, the mastermind behind Growing Healthy, said, “We considered the pilot a success and were excited that conference organizers also viewed the ability to impact nutrition and exercise among low-income, underserved community members and their families positively.”

Growing Healthy was a collaboration between Clallam County Master Gardeners and Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics free clinic, First Step Family Support Center and Port Angeles Community Gardens. To learn more about the “Growing Healthy” project, e-mail Zoe Apisdorf, VIMO development coordinator, at development@vimoclinic.org or call 457-4431.