Community Gardens Day 1

Today we spent the day working in the community gardens at our church. Our family is sponsoring a double plot where we will plant vegetables that will be donated to the local food pantry which goes to feed low income families in our community. Today the entire church (Vineyard Community Church) worked together in the garden, weeding, mulching, and planting. Most of the plots will be sponsored by families in the church or neighborhood who are willing to plant and harvest food to share with the food pantry. There are also plots that families in the neighborhood can rent (only $35 for the season) to plant and grow food for their own use. It is a brilliant idea (thank you, Nancy Short) and an amazing way to come together to serve our community.

Ione and I are the bosses of our plot. Jim and Thelonious are in charge of the “inside” work i.e. running the food pantry.  She was a champ today. She weeded and dumped buckets into the compost heap. We planted a few rows of strawberries that someone had donated. Then after hours of work we came home and planted a bunch of starters that we will eventually take and plant in our plot.

This year we are growing squash, baby carrots. radishes and sugar peas. We plan to update the blog on the progress of our little plot, and the bigger progress of the community garden.