Start Local, Grow Extra, Expand Our Reach
It’s easy to get started in making a difference. If you already have a garden, you probably already produce more than you can use yourself. If that’s the case, then share your surplus with your family, friends, neighbors, local food pantry, etc. Then, when you’re planning and planting your garden each spring, plan on planting a little extra…plant an extra
row to share with your local food pantry and people in need. The next step is to start a Community Garden. Community Gardens can benefit everyone. Elderly people who can’t garden, people with little or no space for a garden, people
who have never gardened before and need help learning how to garden, people who have needed to move during the growing season and don’t have a garden of their own, people who travel a lot and can not care for a garden. These are just a few examples of people who can benefit from a Community Garden, this does not include all the people in our community that can benefit from the abundant harvest that can come from a Community Garden. The size of the Community Garden directly affects the number of people we will be able to impact. Our first focus should be on our immediate community. Single parents, widows/widowers, children, etc. After we meet the needs of our community we can expand to neighboring communities. We may also be able to supply fresh vegetables to our school lunch program. Once we grow our reach to neighboring communities, the best way we can help others is by education and duplication. We can not grow all the food it takes to feed the world all by ourselves! We can educate others about gardening and how to start a community garden project. Then they will be able to take care of their own community and they will be able to educate others in the same way. This should not be about us solving world hunger, this should be about being a model to others on how we can take care of our community the way God intended for us to. “Love your neighbor as yourself” Romans 13:8-10
