It’s Time to Tend the Garden—Earn Service Hours!
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Sponsor A Raised Bed in our Vegetable Garden to Feed the Hungry!
Sponsoring our parish vegetable garden means planting, watering, and harvesting your own 4’x4’ raised bed throughout the growing season. We supply the boxes, organic mix, grids, trellises, and plants, plus all the information and support you need to make your garden grow. In keeping with our mission to feed the hungry, the vegetables we grow will be distributed through our food pantry.
THE GARDEN IS LOCATED ON THE CORNER OF SUMMIT AND RIDGE TERRACE
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
1. Attend ORIENTATION MEETING on Monday, May 4 at 7-8 PM in the parish garden
2. Attend SPRING CLEANUP on Saturday, May 9 at 9-10 AM in the parish garden
3. Attend PARISH PLANTING DAY on Saturday, May 16 at 9 -10AM in the parish garden.
4. Plant, water, and weed your box regularly May through October
5. Water daily in hot weather.
6. Ask another gardener to tend your box if you go out of town
7. Sign up for a HARVEST, DISTRIBUTION, AND DELIVERY DATE (list of dates will be provided to all gardeners).
8. Pay $30 fee to SPC Social Service Ministry to reserve your box (see below for instructions).
9. Sign and date this form and return it with your payment to the rectory or bring with you to the Orientation Meeting on May 4th.
To participate, please download, complete, and sign the registration form available here.