Community Garden
The Collaborative is fortunate to manage a four acre site encompassing an organic garden and a large apple orchard. Students in the Extended Day Program and The Summer Camp, The Collaborative's staff and interested community volunteers carefully select crops and complementary flowers to grow and harvest. Throughout the growing season students learn how to prepare a garden for planting, maintain a garden, harvest and compost. At the end of the season, we enjoy the bounties of our hard work!The food is prepared and eaten by our Extended Day Program and The Summer Camp participants and the volunteers!
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Dig In
The community garden is located behind the soccer field at Flood Brook Union School. Since 2003, the garden has been a community-maintained garden supported by youth and adults in the Londonderry area. Throughout the years, the garden has transformed to meet the needs and suggestions of our community when it comes to the produce in the garden. Over the summer, garden educators will be scheduled to educate youth and interested community members on a variety of different gardening related topics.
Summer Camp and The Collaborative’s Extended Day Program youth will benefit from the joys of the garden with traditional storytelling, assist maintaining the garden while learning good practices of gardening, gathering food from the garden, and having meals generated from the garden. These two programs enhance the awareness how important it is to understand what they are eating, where it comes from, and the appreciation of the work done in the garden and rewarded with delicious and healthy foods!
The Collaborative is extending our invitation to assist with the garden throughout the summer. The goal is to sustain a beautiful garden and grow bountiful food for our families and individuals in the community. This is a great opportunity to help provide organic healthy foods! The garden welcomes families and individuals to spend time in the garden to maintain and enjoy the garden for our community anytime; for an hour or 20 minutes. If there is a week or certain day throughout the summer anyone would like to volunteer time in the garden, please contact Chrissy or Maryann at The Collaborative: 824-4200.
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