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One of our plot leaders, Billy Fairchild, recommended that we use a large tractor with an attached tiller to create the remaining 80+ beds that we needed to accomodate this year’s Grace Garden and CSA. Billy also graciously volunteered to pick-up and drive the tractor last night for our first group work day. Now I’m wondering how we ever survived digging out and creating beds without a tractor!
Last year, it took us probably 20-30 hours and lots of volunteers to create 36 beds. Last night, Billy, John Deere, and some hardworking volunteers completed 84 beds in about five hours!
Thank you to everyone who was able to come out last night! We are attempting to fill our remaining plots with volunteer shareholders, so turn in those CSA forms if you haven’t already and are still interested. Once we have all of the plots full, your plot leader will be in touch with further details.
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- The best helpers of the day!
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- Cleaning up the beds
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- Randy & Jodi
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- Billy and our new friend, John Deere
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- Looking south toward GCC
Here is the video that was shown during weekend worship services a few weeks ago of Sara and Grant talking about the Grace Garden…
more about “Grace Garden Video“, posted with vodpod
To get involved with the Grace Garden team, simply click here and fill out the form. Thanks!
Good work finds the way between pride and despair.
It graces with health. It heals with grace.
It preserves the given so that it remains a gift
By it, we lose loneliness:
we clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us;
we enter the little circle of each other’s arms…Wendell Berry (Excerpt from What are People For?)
I went out to the garden by myself tonight (which I highly recommend, by the way). I don’t know about many of you, but my “day job” requires that I sit at a desk all day, in a cube-like “office” with no windows. I derisively call it my little cardboard box because that’s what it feels like to me. Most days, I’m not able to look back at what I’ve done for the day and see tangible results.
Hours at the garden are so different. The same is true for the hours spent in the garden in our backyard, but the immensity and the purpose of the Grace Garden give my hours there so much more meaning. I spent a few hours out at the garden tonight, tilling and shoveling and tilling some more. In all honesty, it’s pretty brainless work. As the sun begin to set and I prepared to go home, I looked back on what I’d done. A few short hours and some sweat out at the garden produces very real and tangible results. Results that will help to feed Shepherd families, and, eventually, other families in need around Hamilton County.
Out at the garden, it isn’t about the amount of work that’s done, it’s about feeding hungry families with delicious homegrown food, about building community, about learning more about the creation God’s given us to nurture and protect…and, as I’m increasingly learning, it’s about giving the community that works the garden the opportunity to see very visible, very fruitful results for the time and energy we devote to it. These days, it seems like that’s harder and harder to come by.
Thanks for listening to my ramblings…hope to see you out at the garden enjoying the fruits of your labor soon!
Sara
