Garden
Family and Community Service: Taking Education Outside the Classroom
Heat crashes over the Urban Farm in waves, pooling in the thick air above the 6 Stones parking lot before the uncertain breeze carries it across to the rows of organic crops. Hunched over the budding foliage, Charlotte Banks and her mixed class of Trinity High School students don’t bat an eye. As the school…
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We’re Building an Urban Farm!
If you’ve dropped by the office on a weekday afternoon recently, there’s a good chance that you saw something strange out in the Community Garden. We’ve had an influx of Trinity High School students out in the pavilion of late. That’s very much intentional. We opened our garden in partnership with the City of Bedford…
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Guest Post: Things I Learned From the Garden
Text by Todd Boutte, Community Garden Volunteer It was early morning in July, the air as thick and warm as it always is, and I was preparing for a busy day in the Community Garden. We had seen a projected high temperature in upper 90’s, so we were all hoping to finish our projects before the summer…
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Marcus: The Richest Man I Know
BEDFORD — The rush of cars along Industrial Boulevard is little more than a murmur in the serenity of the Community Garden. Dirt and leaves sail through the air as Marcus pounces onto an overgrown patch of soil, ripping unwanted foliage from the earth. Underneath the overrun trestles of the adopted plot, morning sunlight dances…
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Annette: Growing Together
There’s an old saying about the difference between being called to something and being equipped for it. We usually assume that a calling follows the equipping and that the equipping is very intentional. Sometimes, though, we find ourselves at the front of something we never thought we’d do. In those instances, hindsight almost always reveals…
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