All the food grown here is served in the Soup Kitchen!
note from Mary...
We are growing and eating. Jeff, Mary Anna, Aliceson and I welcome the newest members to our project and hope that they will enjoy this fulfilling work as much as we do.
The community continues to enjoy eating the veggies as we plant more to harvest later in the summer.
We continue to work in the garden every Tuesday and Wednesday, and perhaps more days as the new group figures out their schedule.
It takes us at least 12 hours a week to maintain the garden.
We are growing and eating. Jeff, Mary Anna, Aliceson and I welcome the newest members to our project and hope that they will enjoy this fulfilling work as much as we do.
The community continues to enjoy eating the veggies as we plant more to harvest later in the summer.
We continue to work in the garden every Tuesday and Wednesday, and perhaps more days as the new group figures out their schedule.
It takes us at least 12 hours a week to maintain the garden.
The Soup Kitchen Project Team posing after a long day of hard work prepping the gardens for new plantings.
L-R: Phyllis Conner, Lois Blanks, Jeanie jackson, Randi Nott, George Blanks
Kneeling: Teresa Uhls
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Photos from June 2013 Soup Kitchen garden installation.
Twenty seven middle-school children and their adult leaders from Bethlehem, PA spent the week with Randi installing an alternative-technique vegetable garden behind Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. They utilized wood pallets, straw bales, and tires, as well as a rain gutter grow system to grow a variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs. They also added rain barrels with soaker hoses or float valves to minimize the need to hand water the planters. Using recycled cinder blocks, they built a 3 section compost bin. To top it all off, the kids made bird houses and signs as garden art. Their art complemented the recycled metal tools that were welded together to make "scare crows" for a bird bath and bird feeder. For additional information, contact the BSMGA Soup Kitchen Project Leader: Jeff Gilliland or Mary Goldman
MG's at work in the Soup Kitchen Garden
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