Over the weekend of June 6th
and 7th, 2015, The
Harvest, the Home's Community Garden project began planting in the
field behind Bay
View, The Home's independent
living facility at 4380 North Main Street and the Elks
Club in the City's North End. Organizer Kayla Aguiar and her mother,
Maria Ferreira, were joined by volunteers Ethan Mateus, Eric Pacheco,
Rithy Tep and Bruce Norman to get the garden planted with a variety of
vegetables. Half of the harvested food will be donated to Bay View and The
Home and the other half to area soup kitchens and food pantries.
"It's a work in progress. Slowly we're doing section by section and
we'll get there," stated Maria Ferreira, Kayla's mother and
co-organizer. "It's fun. You get to meet a lot of people, and it's
for a good cause." she added. The project is using a straw
bale method of planting that uses hay bales as a container for growing
plants, which keeps weeds from growing and avoids plowing a rocky or clay
soil.
Click
here for a three-minute 
video, here for
a Herald News article, and here
for their interview by the Herald News reporter. For more
information or to volunteer to work on the garden, visit www.TheHarvestCommunityGarden.com
or
contact Kayla or
Maria at 508-215-9081.
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(Top two rows)
Organizer Kayla Aguiar stands next to the garden while volunteers Ethan
Mateus, Rithy Tep nad Eric Pacheco work on disassembling some pallets to
make raised beds. (Row two) Kayla plants some squash in one of the raised
beds while volunteer Bruce Norma checks out the tomato cages next to the
garden. (Bottom two rows) Beets, lettuce, peppers and squash are some of
the vegetables that have been planted in the straw bales.
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