One day last week fourth graders from New City School walked over to Trinity Church's food pantry on Washington with a 14-pound watermelon they had grown at a community garden for the pantry's clients. After enjoying a slice of the watermelon a woman remarked that the watermelon "was the sweetest she had tasted all year."…
Tag: Community Garden
A community garden grows up
Along with an assortment of volunteers, including Jane Leavitt, above, urban farmer Arthur Culbert has harvested 600 pounds of produce to date from the community garden he created on a large (for the CWE) parcel of land on Waterman. Though the garden is smack dab in the middle of the city amazingly no one, including…