Gardening for the Community
Beth was asked today by her coworker about the possibility of having some of us at Fog City Gardens to help with planning and implementing a vegetable garden at her father’s house while he’s away on vacation.
Anders in Fog City's 'LakeShore' Garden
While the six of us currently involved are not experts, we have had some success with planting. I’m seriously looking forward to helping someone in the community plant more veggies (I asked for fruits, flowers and shrubs for bees, too).
Our goals at Fog City Gardens is to promote community through garden planning, implementation, seed sharing and other things related to gardening. Secondary to this is giving back to the community is another way. Ideas we have are to provide a personal CSA, give extras to the community or schools or to host a frequent dinner party with things we’ve grown. I like the last one best, because it gives everyone in the community a chance to see what their neighbors are up to “back there”.
If I pull off this bee hive thing, there will be some community honey to share with people that I’m really looking forward to. I may have to stick with beer, cheese and veggies for now.
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February 11th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Giving back is a great idea. Would it be possible to maybe have some students come in and work or learn in the garden for an afternoon?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
@rowdeezy Yeah! That would be really great. There are certainly stages of development for each garden, and we’re in the down period now, but I expect that when plants are actually growing, it would be a neat experience for a small group of students. We can talk!