January 7 2011 • Posted by corene

Coming Soon:  Community Garden

What a crazy few months.  We moved across the lake to a property in the woods.  Our daughter started kindergarten in an entirely new school environment (and thankfully seems to be thriving).  I’m a Girl Scout cookie mom, Art Docent volunteer and regular chauffeur of 5 & 6 year old kids.  If someone would have made this prediction for me a few years ago I would have told them they were NUTS.  But here I am and I’m loving it more than I could ever have imagined. 
Now I went and did it again.  In a recent community newsletter there was a little blurb about gathering up volunteers for a steering committee for a new community garden to be built at a park near my home.  I emailed the coordinator, went to the meeting last night - and now I have a fat notebook and year-long commitment to help get this thing built.  The words “community rock star” are used in the volunteer materials, which is good - because I’m ready to rock and roll.  I’ve never been a part of something like this before! 
Obviously from my sporadic blog posts I’m definitely no official food blogger.  Right?  Maybe, maybe not.  But I look forward to updating the progress on the Beaver Lake Park P-Patch/Community Garden/Organic Food Fest (no official name yet).  It feels good to be involved and part of something that will truly make a difference in the place I choose to call home.  Let’s get digging! 
Updates to be posted.  Any advice that I can share with the awesome group of citizen volunteers ready to rock this thing would be appreciated!