The
Harvest, the Home's Community Garden project has begun in earnest with
the arrangement of hay bales and drip irrigation 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. Mother and daughter Maria Ferreira and
Kayla Aguiar were interviewed by Herald News Staff Reporter Deborah
Allard and Photographer Jack Foley on June 3, 2015 in order to get the
whole story on the project. "At harvest time we would like to donate
fifty percent to The Home for
letting us use their land, and the rest will go to the soup
kitchens," said organizer Aguiar. More than seventy people
turned out for a "Taste of Fall River" event
on January 24th that raised over $3,000 to support the project. Along with
grants from Fiskars, Home
Depot and the Walmart
Foundation, the project has garnered almost $7,000 to pay for tools,
hay bales, mulch, seeds and other supplies. Volunteers were on hand
earlier to construct some raised beds using wood from donated pallets and
were due to return for a weekend of work to get the garden ready for more
planting. 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 an 11-minute 
video of the interview.
Click
here for the Herald News article. For more information, visit
www.TheHarvestCommunityGarden.com
or
contact Kayla or
Maria at 508-215-9081.
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(Top two rows)
Organizer Kayla Aguiar and her mother, Maria Ferreira, are interviewed by
Herald New Staff Reporter Deborah Allard as Photographer Jack Foley takes
pictures. (Row three) Kayla and her mother talk about organizing,
fundraising, and the straw bale method of gardening as well as their plans
to donate the produce. (Bottom row, center) Volunteer Ethan Mateus joins
Taylor and her mother after the interview.
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