My garden.

Started by Twinkle, September 05, 2022, 11:49:47 AM

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Twinkle

I hope to eventually learn how to post photos.  I can't wait to share some.

About 11 years ago, I spent some time with my brother in Western Montana.  It was special because we had been estranged for 25 years behind his drug problems.

The most special part of it was working in the garden he had built as part of his drug treatment program.  The tiny rural community he lived in offered up land, materials for fencing and sheds and greenhouses, an irrigation system, and  the corrections department sentenced youthful drug and DUI offenders to community service, doing all the heavier labor.  The result was simply breathtaking!  The season that I was there, we harvested over a ton of produce to donate to local food banks and I helped with some cooking classes to benefit some of the local folks whose diets consisted of convenience store crap and garbage that came out of a microwave box.

It was a good time.  It ended.  I always wanted an opportunity to do something similar -- I get a lot of gratification out of helping people realize that eating right is such a big part of physical and emotional health.

Skip to 2022.  I lost my hubby a couple of years ago and decided to get the hell out of Western Washington, so I came back to South Dakota, where I was born and raised.  Worked and planned for most of the first year and my first garden is doing fairly well.  It still needs work.  The young man who does my yard work got his kids interested in coming over on planting day, and before I knew it, the kids at the daycare wanted to come over for a day in the garden!  They picked a bunch of veggies to take back to school, to have their teachers cook up for lunch.  They asked such smart questions and were so engaged and polite and excited!  Now the teachers are talking about making plans for the kids to be able to come and participate in all phases of next year's garden.  One of the high school teachers would like to get some of the boys to come over and finish some of the work I still need done, landscaping and building planter boxes and a greenhouse.  My small town, just over 1,000 people, is pretty closely knit, and this can all be easily done.

 I was just reading on another board about how we need to come together as Americans and get more devoted to pursuits like growing our own food, and it really feels optimistic to have so many in my little community getting excited about learning what city folks never even think of -- how to feed ourselves!

Thanks for listening.


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Quote from: Twinkle on September 05, 2022, 11:49:47 AMI hope to eventually learn how to post photos.  I can't wait to share some.

About 11 years ago, I spent some time with my brother in Western Montana.  It was special because we had been estranged for 25 years behind his drug problems.

The most special part of it was working in the garden he had built as part of his drug treatment program.  The tiny rural community he lived in offered up land, materials for fencing and sheds and greenhouses, an irrigation system, and  the corrections department sentenced youthful drug and DUI offenders to community service, doing all the heavier labor.  The result was simply breathtaking!  The season that I was there, we harvested over a ton of produce to donate to local food banks and I helped with some cooking classes to benefit some of the local folks whose diets consisted of convenience store crap and garbage that came out of a microwave box.

It was a good time.  It ended.  I always wanted an opportunity to do something similar -- I get a lot of gratification out of helping people realize that eating right is such a big part of physical and emotional health.

Skip to 2022.  I lost my hubby a couple of years ago and decided to get the hell out of Western Washington, so I came back to South Dakota, where I was born and raised.  Worked and planned for most of the first year and my first garden is doing fairly well.  It still needs work.  The young man who does my yard work got his kids interested in coming over on planting day, and before I knew it, the kids at the daycare wanted to come over for a day in the garden!  They picked a bunch of veggies to take back to school, to have their teachers cook up for lunch.  They asked such smart questions and were so engaged and polite and excited!  Now the teachers are talking about making plans for the kids to be able to come and participate in all phases of next year's garden.  One of the high school teachers would like to get some of the boys to come over and finish some of the work I still need done, landscaping and building planter boxes and a greenhouse.  My small town, just over 1,000 people, is pretty closely knit, and this can all be easily done.

 I was just reading on another board about how we need to come together as Americans and get more devoted to pursuits like growing our own food, and it really feels optimistic to have so many in my little community getting excited about learning what city folks never even think of -- how to feed ourselves!

Thanks for listening.


EXCELLENT!!! :thumbup:
To post pics, you'll need to join a photo hosting site, there are some free ones out there.
But whatever you do, save your images, in the event they lock you out and start charging.
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