Dale E. Anderson Memorial

photo taken by UI Brad Beckman

Last Saturday, Sheila Anderson from Trinity Community Gardens in Nampa, and Roberta Ireland, Advanced Master Gardener with Canyon County Extension planted a Colorado Blue Spruce in memory of Sheila’s husband, Dale E. Anderson.

December 23, 2017 marks the third anniversary of Dale’s passing. He is sorely missed by his church and master gardener communities.


Many of us knew and loved Dale. He was an Advanced Master Gardener with 23 years in the program, the last 10 being in Canyon County. His friends and team members remember his selfless, generous ways, sharing freely his years of careful research and knowledge.

Trinity Community Gardens

“Growing to Feed Many,” Nov. 2014, a compact, richly illustrated book in English and Spanish, on which Dale, Sheila and Paulette Blaseg collaborated, demonstrates how Trinity Community Gardens, Inc. gets more food from less space. All produce goes to local food pantries and soup kitchens.  (4,000 # this year). Paulette is an Advanced Master Gardener with Canyon County Extension.

Sheila & Paulette

Besides the garden and the book, Dale and his peers developed an educational course for raised bed gardening. For more information about the book and classes, contact Trinity Gardens

We in the Master Gardener community  are inspired to carry on Dale’s traditions of volunteering, giving generously and developing better food systems to feed the hungry.