LYNNWOOD — A new garden is planned for Meadowdale Park along 168th Street SW.

The nonprofit Farmer Frog has offered to develop an area of the city-owned park into a “pocket farm.” The nonprofit and the city envision an enclosed garden with learning programs open to the public.

The details of the partnership aren’t final.

Under the proposal, the nonprofit would use the garden to teach people how to grow and forage for food, said Sarah Olson, Lynnwood’s deputy parks director.

It would be the first project of its kind in the city, she said. Its mission would fall under long-term efforts to increase local access to fresh and affordable food.

Some of the produce could go to food banks. It also could be distributed through programs that send kids home from school with backpacks of food, Zsofia Pasztor said. She is a horticulturist and arborist who founded Farmer Frog, which is based in Everett.

For the pocket farm, Pasztor has in mind a 14- by 20-foot hoophouse where growing could happen year-round.

A volunteer work party to clear blackberry bushes at the site is planned for Earth Day, April 22. Sometime after that, the nonprofit would build a gate, storage shed and a produce-washing station, Olson said. The plan is to have the garden ready for the 2018 growing season.

The pocket farm was made possible by changes enacted last month to the city codes that govern parks.

The same changes also allow for more off-leash dog areas, such as the one that opened recently at Lynndale Park.

No city money is allotted for the Meadowdale pocket farm. Still, staff wanted the parks codes to acknowledge an increased interest in farming on public land, Olson said.

The city just wrapped up other work at the park, including the addition of a picnic shelter that can be rented, and more parking stalls.

Rikki King: 425-339-3449; rking@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @rikkiking.

Volunteers are needed for a work party on Earth Day, April 22, to clear blackberry bushes at Meadowdale Park, 5700 168th Street Southwest, in an area where the nonprofit Farmer Frog plans to create a pocket farm. Tools are provided. To join the work party, contact Marielle Harrington with the city of Lynnwood at 425-670-5532, mharrington@lynnwoodwa.gov.