TAKING ACTION

• Gardening is good for your mental and physical health

• The focus is on others in need

• Gardening provides good overall exercise as well as helps with hand dexterity and agility

• It is a way to get your Vitamin D3

• Gardening with us touches lives and makes a difference

• It helps build relationships – especially intergenerational and intercultural – and provides an opportunity to make new friends

• You’ll learn new things about vegetables and gardening

• You can put your skills and abilities to use

• Gardening helps with stress

• Give – use our Donate Button

• Volunteer as a group

• Do you need community service hours?  We can do that as a registered non-profit!  

• There are many possibilities to choose from:  Fertilizing, Planting, Transplanting, Weeding, Harvesting, Delivering Vegetables to local food pantries, Moving Manure, laying down gypsum, laying down and picking up drip tape (irrigation system), etc.  Pick the ones that appeal to you! 

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank one of our first volunteers, Larry Ewing. Larry saw that we needed help watering this large a garden and volunteered to do that. Larry has also helped quite a lot with harvesting along with members of his family. Larry helped with a significant project: redoing the laying out of the water line to the garden.

We also wish to thank another volunteer for his many man hours of volunteering and other contributions:  Ernie Kazetsky.  Ernie has taken over the watering of the garden. He is enthusiastic about all he does at the garden.  He loves to come up with unique ways of watering our large vine crops and those we grow on the compost pile.  Ernie helped significantly with the building of the compost pile.  He has also built temporary structures for large vine crops to grow vertically such as Opo squash and Angled Luffa.  He also replaced the faucet connection at the garden.  He tried his hand at rotor tilling, too.  

In the past, we have connected with a group of wonderful families from St. Laurence Catholic Church.  About 7 families with children came out to learn to garden in their own small plot.  These families not only took care of their own plot, but they donated most of that food to the food pantries as well as helping in the big garden with harvesting, transplanting (leeks), planting, cleaning up crops at the end of the season and more.