Community Garden
Our Savior Community Garden
In 2011, our community garden produced over 900 pounds of vegetables and in 2012, the garden produced 1354 pounds of vegetables!!! All those veggies were donated to those in need of food through local food pantries. In 2013 we are hoping to grow even more veggies!
The idea of the community garden is to be an intergenerational effort to provide fresh, healthy, locally grown food for those who are hungry in our community. As a church we will plant vegetable and fruit seeds and plants, volunteers will care for the garden throughout the summer and fall, and we’ll donate the produce to food pantries and to use at PADS.
Through a Burst Grant from Wheat Ridge Ministries for the growing season of 2013, we have hired two people who are homeless to work in the community garden. We are excited for this opportunity to be able to produce more food for local food pantries while offering income, work experience, and an opportunity for mentoring and a chance for these individuals to get back on their feet.
The purposes of the garden are:
The idea of the community garden is to be an intergenerational effort to provide fresh, healthy, locally grown food for those who are hungry in our community. As a church we will plant vegetable and fruit seeds and plants, volunteers will care for the garden throughout the summer and fall, and we’ll donate the produce to food pantries and to use at PADS.
Through a Burst Grant from Wheat Ridge Ministries for the growing season of 2013, we have hired two people who are homeless to work in the community garden. We are excited for this opportunity to be able to produce more food for local food pantries while offering income, work experience, and an opportunity for mentoring and a chance for these individuals to get back on their feet.
The purposes of the garden are:
- To bring together people from all generations (from preschool to Seniors) in our congregation; to form a stronger relationships within our congregation as well as with members of the community.
- To ensure that people in our community have access to fresh, healthy, locally grown food.
- To offer opportunities for everyone in the congregation to learn gardening skills through hands-on experience and perhaps through seminars or presentations from gardening experts.
- To care for Creation and be good stewards of the land and other resources God has given us through organic and sustainable gardening practices.
How YOU Can Help with the Garden
We will need lots of volunteers to make the garden a success. You don’t need to be a farmer or have gardening expertise to help. You can come for an hour once or spend several hours every week helping. Throughout the summer and fall we’ll need different kinds and amounts of help, so keep your eyes and ears open for opportunities to help with the garden.
We would love to have volunteers to organize or lead the following aspects of the garden:
- Maintenance of the garden throughout the summer/fall: weeding, picking, caring for plants (we will need multiple people to take charge of this- perhaps by sections of the garden)
- Managing the organic and sustainable aspect of the garden
- Composting
- Canning
- Keeping track of what the garden produces and what we donate
- Delivering produce to food pantries
- Water management
Contact Melissa Johansen for more information.
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