Produce Planting 101 - June 29, 2023

On June 29th, we kicked off our Community Garden Project! Through Father Barnabas Fravel’s connections at Central Susquehanna’s Opportunities, the parish was able to develop a joint gardening project with the nonprofit that helps low-income families learn skills to help themselves.

Each week throughout the summer, we're providing educational programs on gardening, nutrition, and food budgeting. Our community can help maintain the garden and then help themselves to the fruits of their labor. At this first event of the series, the parish also provided potted vegetable plants that individuals could take home.

Photo of planters with newly planted vegetables. The planters appear diagonally starting in the lower right corner, and grass beneath them stretches out to the lower right corner. There's a white house behind the planters, and the planters stand in front of a porch that has a wrought-iron railing. The door to the house is white, with a large glass window in it, and there's a black mat in front of the door.

Photo two woman at our planting event. The gloved woman on the left is kneeling on black plastic in a planting bed that has brick scalloping around the edges. She's reaching underneath one of two red, trianguler pieces of fencing that will support the growing plants. The other woman is standing to her right, on the back porch. The woman on the right is holding gloves and is looking towards the camera.

Three woman stand in the back yard, posing next to the plants they've just potted. A few neighborhood houses appear in the background.

Two gloved woman standing at a waist-high planter, planting vegetables.

A man sitting with a bag of manure between his knees, wearing the expression that you'd expect from a man sitting with a bag of manure between his knees. Haha. Three clay pots appear in the foreground, and a green, plastic pot sits at his right side.

Three woman standing at a waist-high planter turn towards the camera and smile.

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