Sarah here. The garden is flourishing these days. The squash and melons are doing so well that they have begun encroaching on the walking paths and have started to grow into the rows of corn. We harvested on Monday and again on Wednesday. In one single harvest we had 105 lbs of produce. It was exciting!
The people who come to the pantry each week to get their usual rations always seem very thankful for the vegetables we bring. And when the kids that come in with their parents rush to our table and point at tomatoes, it makes me want to give them all we have. It's just nice to see young people who are excited about vegetables. We offer an open invitation for people who come to the pantry to come down to the garden to help out but as yet have not seen many familiar faces. We worry that they might show up when we aren't there and pick vegetables from the adjacent community garden as opposed to our pantry garden, or that people will simply take more than their fair share. Our location makes it difficult to be secure, but we do have one community gardener who has become something of a mascot for us who spends most of his day in the garden and enforces the rules on anyone who might come with bad intentions.
In a previous post, we mentioned that we were planning an end of summer dinner party. Plans are coming along smoothly. We have procured a great location at a local home and garden shop. We have a menu planned out. We have posters and tickets made and several people have promised to attend. With any luck, the dinner will go splendidly and keeping the garden going next year will be possible.
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