Monday, July 16, 2012

The Community Garden Flourishes




In its beautiful setting, the community garden has many aspects.

There is beauty...













There is creativity...













There is ingenuity...

Videotape strung between stakes shimmers, shakes and scares the crows away from the newly planted corn.









There is discovery...

The school garden has tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, squash, and now a bean teepee.











And there is bounty.



In June the Master Gardeners donated 199 pounds of produce from their plot to various Clay County assistance programs.









By August over 500 pounds had been donated.

This harvest of about 40 pounds went to both the Senior Center and Social Services in Clay County.