Community Garden

Each year our garden yields a lot of fresh produce! The help of many hands are needed throughout the season to till, plant, weed, water, harvest, and deliver produce to local pantries. All are invited to help with this community outreach project.
Generally we work two days each week on Monday and Thursday mornings from 8:30-9:30am with some fellowship time following each work session. Early in the season we spend a lot of time weeding and watering. As the season progresses we begin harvesting and delivering produce.
Contact Deb L or Jeri M if you would be able to assist in this ministry.

2025 Season Highlights
Our gardening season officially began on Saturday, April 19 with the planting of 13 rows of potatoes and rows of onions, lettuce, carrots, beets, snap peas, and cabbage. The first planting of sweet corn was completed early the next week. More sweet corn will be planted in a few weeks to help space out the harvest. Regular gardening times began after we started to plant with weeding and more planting.
In late-October, the growing season came to a close.  The last items to be harvested were tomatoes and peppers.  The rest of the garden was cleaned up and tilled, ready for the winter fallow period.  Hundreds of pounds of produce was taken to Project Hope. Even though we don’t keep close track to all that is given away, we know we took 66 dozen ears of sweetcorn and at least 780 pounds of potatoes.  We had three new gardeners this season—woohoo!  Thanks to all who worked hard to feed our hungry neighbors in need!

2024 Season Summary
2024 was another very successful season! Thousands of pounds of produce were taken to Project Hope. Early crops were sugar snap peas, onions, lettuce, radishes, carrots, and beets. Later ones include cabbage, summer squash, winter squash, pie pumpkins, green beans, sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, and LOTS of potatoes. This fresh produce was delivered to Project Hope pantry from early May to late October.
Thanks to all who make this ministry possible.
Special thanks to Doug A and Gary R for taking the produce to local Lutheran food pantries.