Community Garden Details

With the idea of a community garden a year ago at one of our Creation Care Ministry meetings, came also the big question of: How are we going to go about this? St. Matthews in Warson Woods was a great help in terms of example and viable information. They have now 6 plots 4x8 sqf and have been through one successful growing season. Our parishioner, Charlie Moley, was incidentally looking for an Eagle Scout Project and decided on a community garden. How perfect is that? A wonderful God incident, is what I call it! We will follow the square foot garden approach as much as we can since it's the easiest way to grow lots of food in small spaces.
Our soil will be a mix of compost (hopefully free horse manure), peat moss and vermiculite.
We have raised some monies to start us on the building of the structures. We are planning on 4 4x8 raised beds on the south side of the playground by the handicap parking.
There are still lots of open questions which we will address at our next meeting, this Sunday, April 17th at 11:20. Please come and join us. Brainstorming makes it possible!