Fall River Housing Authority Family and Youth Services Coordinator Joseph DaSilva worked to ready community gardens at the Oak Village Apartments on Locust Street and at the Doolan Apartments in the City's South End. Senior residents of the two developments will then tend the gardens and share in the harvest of fresh vegetables. "These are very popular gardens," commented DaSilva. "Though the residents aren't able to do the heavy lifting needed to get the gardens started, they enjoy the chance to weed and prune the plants, and to enjoy eating the fresh produce," he added. Click here to see photos of the opening of the Oak Village gardens. Click here for pictures of the Doolan Apartment Community Garden in 2009. Click here for photos of the community garden at Bristol Community College. For further information about the Oak Village Community Garden, contact Family and Youth Services Director Joseph DaSilva at 508-675-3527. For more information about Fall River Community Gardens, contact Nicole Fortier, Community Gardens coordinator, at 508-679-6841.  
 

(Top row, left) Fall River Housing Authority Family and Youth Services Coordinator Joseph DaSilva rakes up the garden plot at the Oak Village Apartments that still has lettuce growing from last year's crop. (Top row, center) Volunteer Scott Warner helps with the planting. (Middle row, left) Doolan Apartment resident and volunteer gardener Ed Cote looks over some pepper plants that are ready to put in the ground. (Bottom row) Mr. DaSilva puts in the pepper plants under Mr. Cote's supervision. Mr. Cote will tend the garden following some back surgery he is scheduled to have this week.