By Barbara Munkres
Trinity Covenant and Friends Meeting helped Pilgrim Church provide helpers at the Interfaith Garden. Thanks to liaison Marilyn Lund, an abundance of workers turned out on Tuesday to harvest, weed, and compost. Mary Mackie of Pilgrim reported that some people were digging potatoes and teenagers put up a soft fence around the tomatoes to protect them. One of the boys added fox urine to the soil around the tomatoes, which in addition to the fence, helps repel critters.
Mary Mackie and Carla prepared some compost to add to a new bed and Pat Rabby helped mix it into the soil. Then lettuce was planted in the new bed along with Dianthus. Deborah Burger weeded (her specialty, she says!) along with others. Eleanor Smith picked cucumbers and weeded. Flowers and broccoli were treated with water and Bu-T-Grow. Bean plants were trimmed of old stems, leaving the stems which are still producing.
Things I love about the Interfaith Garden are the chance to reconnect with old friends from other congregations and to make new ones.
Thank you to the many volunteers who came to the garden to help out on both Tuesday and Saturday of Week 21. On Saturday, Mark Sandeen took a picture of some of the harvest and some of the workers before we walked over to the Food Pantry to deliver. Thanks, Mark!
Volunteers at the Garden
From left, Barbara, Sarah Chu, Carla, Jennifer Johnson, Sou Chu, and Marilyn Lund. Also present were Amy Swanson, Bob Lund, and of course, Mark.