Community Garden

George and I spent 4 hours last Saturday morning volunteering at a community garden. Gardening in Florida is different than what we're used to. We pulled up to what looked like a lawn and started tearing it apart to find "soil" (really just sand) underneath. Unfortunately the whole project was quite disorganized. Probably about 60 or 70 people showed up ready to work. The goal was to prepare and plant 1/2 acre. Instead after 4 hours of work there is a half-tilled, kind-of hoed, torn up lawn. Ah well. George and I worked our little section and that part is ready to plant. I'm curious to see what ends up happening with it. Supposedly the boy scouts will maintain it (when and if it gets planted) and also the foster home that is near the garden will work on it and get the produce from it. I think community gardening is a fabulous concept. I found out about this volunteer opportunity through Disney's Give a Day Get a Day Program. It was neat because my oldest sister, Abbie, has been working on a non-profit educational farm up in Alaska, called Calypso Farm. It sounds like a wonderful operation and she has been telling me about these community gardens so I wanted to find a local one. Hopefully the 'garden' we worked on actually becomes a producing community garden! I think it's cool that Disney is promoting service. They have eligible service projects across the country if you're interested in getting free tickets to Disney. Plus you can stay at our house in FL if you come to Disney World!!