Start a community or church garden
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Editor,
This is a call to all area churches to begin a gardening program for church and community members. We are available for the next several months to assist you in organizing yourselves in a way that will make gardening easy, fun, and natural. Creating no-till gardens can be made over grass, asphalt, weeds, or other seemingly inhospitable places by building, not digging down. We will help develop your water source and create interest from the youth. The Lake County non-violent offenders work program is underway for a great body of extra service help in the building of the gardens and gathering of recycled goods.
Please ask members to begin to store or donate newspapers (non glossy), cardboard (non-glossy), leaves, straw, clean spring grass clippings (no pesticides), starts, seeds and land (if not using church property). Build it and they will come.
Garden plots are currently available outside the Catholic Church in Polson. Please join one another to assure that no matter what happens “out there” in the world, your members will have food. Gas prices are already soaring, and food will be expensive this summer. Be prepared for any disasters (natural or man-made) that could possibly come our way. Plan for excess in your gardens so your members will have enough to store. It could be a hard winter for some next year. Please set aside some funds for irrigation, tools, fencing and trellising.
Come and help build the Bistro Community Garden. We are meeting every Monday at 4 p.m. at the Big Sky Art Bistro, (Polson, Main and Fourth) for community gardening classes. Then at 5:30 p.m. we have raw food preparation classes that lead to a wonderful dinner at 6:15 p.m.
Reach me online at kelly@getwellretreat.com or at www.facebook.com/polsoncommunitygardens or by cell 406-314-3808.
Community gardens are a great opportunity for all youth, parents, and elderly to work, play and create together.
Kelly Ware
Polson
