Community Action working with families to grow own food at ‘garden of love’
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min read·January 31, 2024
ALBION – A new program underway at Community Action in Albion is intended to further the agency’s mission of “giving a hand up, rather than a handout.”
On Thursday morning, staff and volunteers began planting a community garden in the back yard by the canal.
The idea came about when director Renee Hungerford attended the first Stone Soup graduation, a program Hungerford developed to teach families how to prepare food.
She next wrote to Vego Garden to request raised beds. They offered six metal beds, but Hungerford asked for only three.
“Many hands of staff and volunteers went toward planting, watering and assembling,” Hungerford said. “This is not just a garden of produce, but truly a garden of love.”
---- Repost and Excerpt from orleansHUB
