God’s FFA (Garden Project)
Fourteen volunteers worked 659 hours this summer in the 12 church garden plots, the 30’x30’ garden at New Opportunities, and the four raised decks in the Storybook Garden. The total weight of the produce delivered to the food pantry was 4,431 pounds with an estimated value of $4,904. The final vegetable to be harvested was the sweet potatoes which we grew in grow bags. That experiment worked very well. The guys just dumped the soil into one of the raised garden decks and picked out the sweet potatoes…no digging! An area has already been staked out and is being prepared just west of the New Opportunities garage for an additional sweet corn field for next year.
