By Thom Morgan, Springmoor Landscape Manager
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| Thom Morgan |
Springmoor Donates
Spare Veggies to Food Bank
It was January 2009, and I was thinking about what
Springmoor residents and staff could do in the way of a community outreach
project when I heard of the Plant a Row program in which a lot of local organizations
were participating. It seemed like a great fit for our community: Springmoor
had a half-acre of land that we set aside in March 2000, and we had 24 resident
gardeners who were very adept at growing fresh vegetables.
Plant a Row, by the way, encourages gardeners to plot one extra
row of their vegetable garden and donate the resulting produce to their
local food bank. I asked Springmoor Executive Director Fred Conner to see if
we could participate and he thought it was a good idea; at the same time,
another staff member approached him to see if Springmoor could participate in Stop Hunger Now, which is another community outreach program that helps malnourished
residents of impoverished countries. Springmoor ended up taking part in both
programs, and just finished packing more than 40,000 meals for Stop Hunger Now.
