growing people newsletter - fall 2006

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Volume 12 Fall 2006

Growing People NGrowing People G a r d e n e r s i n C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t

Project Report: Gardening Education

The heart of Gardeners in Community Developments program is gardening education. Our gardens are classrooms for adults and children.While indoor workshops are held when needed,most of our training occurs hands-on out in realgardens where learning comes through gardeningactivities, observing nature, and having moreexperienced gardeners share what they know. Thisin-garden training brings skills that go well beyondclassroom learning. Being able to efficiently shapea garden bed, spread mulch, transplant seedlings, or harvest mustard greens, involves motor skills andhand-eye coordination, and learning to use tools andyour body that comes only from physically doingthese things yourself.

Experienced gardeners may read books, but alsoread nature. It is about reading the weather,moisture and smell of earth and compost, feel of theair, the weeds that readily sprout after a rain, andother things more elusive that whisper loudly andinsistently that now is the time to plant radishes,greens, and lettuce. It is about developing aninner-garden-self that thrives on learning whilegardening and from shared knowledge passed on byothers.

This issue of Growing People News highlights some of those learning experiences, especially thediversity of learning activities available during recent visits by groups of children.

Here are some other recent training/working garden education events:

Project Report:Gardening Education

1

Garden Notes 2

Down on the (Garden)Farm: Our Livestock

3

GICD SupportersFall 2005 Fall 2006

4

Thanks to Our VolunteerTeams!

5

Home-Schooling in theCommunity Garden

6

Tiah's Garden Recipe 7

Inside this issue:

Upcoming Events:

Plant Sale

2007

Saturday April 14& Sunday April 15

East DallasCommunity

Garden

1416 N. FitzhughDallas

Visit GICDOnline at

www.gardendallas.org

LEARNING IN THE GARDEN

A Scout Troop learned important responsibility and horticultural lessons while weekly watering fruitand nut trees this summer.

Many individuals and groups learned how to harvest, prepare vegetables for consumers, and about problems of food insecurity as they helped with weekly harvests donated to food pantries.

Garden volunteers trained as tour docents, and passed on their own experiences as they guided groupsof children from schools and summer kids programs.

Many attended our organized workshops on water bath canning and seed saving, where real canningand real seed saving occurred.

Volunteers on workdays learned valuable lessons about weeding, mulching, compost making, planting,cover-crops and harvesting.

Our community gardens were on the National Garden Conservancy Tour and the Dallas Water Dept.Xeriscape Tour, giving us an opportunity to teach others about community gardening.

If you or your group would like to join GICDs growing people garden training opportunities byvolunteering in a garden or attending an organized workday or workshop, please call or check our website for more information. See you in the garden!

Becky Smith, Education Asst: 214-564-5801 [email protected]


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GARDEN NOTES :

PAGE 2 GROWING PEOPLE NEWSFALL 2006 VOLUME 12

STAFFDon Lambert, Executive Director

Rebecca Smith, Education Assistant

BOARD ASSOCIATES Ethel Sirls Campbell

Gerald CarltonNavy CheanLee Cobler Jennifer ConradBob CurryMyrna Gorchoff Cathi HaugJoanna HamptonJim HobbsMichael JohnsonCharles KempEllen Khurshudian

Levy Laguardia

Tiah LambertKate MacaulayBunyay NhonhA.L. Nickerson

Brandon PollardSusan Pollard

Lance RasbridgeDarlene Smith

Jim & Jackie SwaffordPaul Thai

Ann Whitus

Martha Doleshal Don Lambert

2006 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

H. Edward Sholty, President Rebecca Smith, Vice President Carolyn Bush, Secretary Rick Guerrero, Treasurer

GARDENERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Gardeners inCommunity Development

www.gardendallas.org

901 Greenbriar LaneRichardson, TX 75080

972-231-3565214-675-8473 [email protected]

For information about newsletter contents, or permission to reprint, contact our acting editor,Don Lambert, at 972-231-3565.

New Refugee Community Gardeners Don Lambert In keeping with the spirit in which community gardens in Old East

Dallas were established a couple of decades ago to assist refugees fromthe Southeast Asian wars, GICD is currently making an effort here to findnew refugee families that can benefit from having garden plots whenever vacancies occur. Pertaining to the East Dallas and Live Oak communitygardens only, we are calling this the New Refugee Community GardenInitiative. Since January eight families have joined, including a Bantufamily from Somalia, a man from Yemen, and six families from Burma.We are delighted to have community gardens as a resource that helpsnewcomers find peace, a sense of place, and a safe place to engage inmeaningful activity as they adjust to a new home. Most of these folkscome from strong farming traditions. They are happy to have a plot togrow food crops that they miss from their homelands. Many garden withtheir children and it is nice to see these new faces and to hear their laughter and expressions of joy in our midst.

Mission Madness in the Garden Miatta Wilson, Educator The youth and children of Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Dallas

regularly volunteer for service projects throughout Dallas. In the last year both groups have visited the Our Savior Community Garden on Jim Miller which is just several miles from our church. What a joy!

Each summer our elementary children have a program called MissionMadness Mondays where they volunteer for different organizations. Theylearn about the organization and share their time and talents. A group of twelve spent the morning at the garden picking tomatoes, beans, peppers,and much more. We then delivered the veggies to the Southeast DallasEmergency Food Center, weighed them in, and left them for pick up bythose in need. The children enjoyed picking and helping but also learningabout the worm farm, bee hives, and Heifer International for which theyhave raised money at past Vacation Church Schools. What a joy to see achild smile as they touch and feed baby worms, or pick fresh beans for the

first time or ask what is that? when looking at a squash. Their curiosityabout Gods creation and how things grow is refreshing.

Last winter our youth group was pleased to come and spend amorning moving mulch and placing it around all the newly planted fruittrees. This was, yes, an opportunity for service hours and a part of our annual 24 hours of service event, but it was also a time share gifts andtime while learning about the community garden program.

In this day and age so many young people, especially city kids, donot know where their food comes from and how it grows. Thecommunity garden is a special place to be outside, explore in nature, and

be reminded of Gods world. We at Eastminster are thankful the garden isa part of our greater community and look forward to working together inthe future.

Gift Enriches Garden Soil Rebecca Smith John and Peggy Ralstons gentle, intelligent pets, Hondo, Fancy

Shoes, Osceola and Sand Dancer, are members of the South Americancamelid family with llamas, camels, guanacos and vicunas. The adults areonly about 36 tall and weigh about 150 lb. Alpacas are prized for their luxurious fiber which comes in 22 natural colors.

Our gardeners are thankful to the Ralstons for sharing their petsother natural resource, dung! Alpaca droppings are almost odorless, lowin nitrogen and a rich fertilizer, perfect for growing vegetables, flowersand fruit. In GICD gardens alpacas are prized for their dung!

If interested in helping clean the paddocks and meeting the Ralstonsand their Alpacas, please let us know.


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VOLUME 12 GROWING PEOPLE NEWSFALL 2006 PAGE 3

Down On The (Garden) Farm:Our Livestock by Carolyn Bush

Most of you know that Heifer International is an organization

dedicated to ending world hunger andsaving the earth by providing poor families around the globe withlivestock, such as cows and water

buffalos. When GICD received a grantfrom Heifer as an Urban AgricultureProject, we agreed to use some of themoney to purchase livestock. Of course, as community gardeners the

best livestock in any garden are beesand earthworms.

Our BeesWe bought materials to make severalhives for the bees, and volunteersquickly painted and assembled some of them so as to be ready. The first twocolonies were purchased in 2005 froma local beekeeper and very carefullytransported in back of a station wagon.One hive was set up at Our Saviour Community Garden and one hive atDon Lamberts home.

During that first year there were some problems to overcome. One hive wasnot very good at defense, and intruder

bees from another colony took advantage of their weakness. Theseintruders robbed and carried off all thehoney and stored pollen, and the colonysuffered from starvation. We added areplacement colony this spring by mailorder from Weaver Apiaries of

Navasota, Texas.

While our two hives each have their own unique personalities, both have

proven to be very welcome gardenguests. The honey bees mostimportant work is pollination, and thishas brought about a definite increase inthe size and numbers of squash,tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, andcucumbers harvested. The bees atDons house are a bit more docile andfriendly and seem to almost welcomeDon and Tiah working with them.While some gardeners have beenconcerned that there is a risk of stingswhile working in a garden with somany bees around, the bees are justintent on their work of gathering nectar and pollen, and pollinating flowers. In

fact, Don and Tiah have put a basin fullof water right outside their back door from which the bees drink. Sometimesthey say, in the heat of the summer, theentire rim of the saucer will have beeslined up around it.

Honey bees are social insects that willdefend themselves if intrudersapproach close to their hive, and willdefinitely sting if touched. Sometimes

people are stung when theyaccidentally trap a bee inside a flower,or instance. If you love flowers, andfruits and vegetables, you must have anacceptance for bees as well. Flowersand honey bees, including some other kinds of wild bees, are necessary

partners. People who want to avoid bees need to stay away from any area

where flowering plants are growing.To make sure that our human gardenvisitors know about the bees we postwarning signs near the hive area.

Even with last years problems, between the two hives, over 22 poundsof delicious honey were produced.This year we are still caught in a multi-year drought. We need early fall rainsto stimulate flowers with sufficientnectar so that bees can store food for the winter and hopefully make enoughhoney to share. While we expect these

little worker bees to be well worth their keep, that may take some time.

And WormsThe other livestock raised by GICDfarmers are worms. And like championcows, these are not just ordinary gardenworms but redworms or compostingworms ( Eisenia foetida ), the type of worm that is bred especially for makingcompost out of organic material.

Our Saviour Garden has a large worm bin, we call it our worm farm, to

which Rebecca Smith addsapproximately 15 pounds of vegetablescraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, etc.

per week. In return, the bin becomesfilled with the worms nutrient richcastings (worm poop), a wonderfulfertilizer and soil conditioner.

GICD gardeners grow superior healthyseedlings using a soil mix with wormcastings. The resulting herbs,tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, aresold at GICDs annual plant sale, and

transplanted into the plots of our fivecommunity gardens. The castings arealso used as a tonic for any sick or under productive plants in the garden.

Maybe its the yucky factor or that itis fun to get ones hands in the dirt, butinvestigating the worm bin has provedto be one of the most popular activitiesfor children when they tour the garden.The kids, and even adults,enthusiastically dig up worms, look for their eggs (cocoons) and actually seehow the worms can eat the garbage.

This year Rebecca Smith, our Educational Assistant, is invitingteachers and school groups to come tothe garden to learn about wormcomposting. She will be teaching themhow to set up worm bins in their classrooms. Others may want to learnabout keeping worms in their homes or offices. If you know of any schools or groups who might want to visit our worms, and learn about vermiculturecomposting, please contact Don or Rebecca. You can help GICD pass onthe gift of Heifers livestock.

Recent DonationsWe have been quite blessed in recentmonths to have received somewonderful and much needed gifts.These have included donations of seeds from Linda Nickerson and fromHeifer International . John Ralston donated his dads used, but in excellentcondition, Troybilt garden tiller. Agroup of volunteers, the APEX group,in addition to helping with gardenchores, donated wheelbarrows, forksand rakes. The Smith family gave ametal greenhouse frame. And, wereceived a free land boundary surveyfrom R-Delta Engineering .

In the past four yearsGICD communitygardeners havedonated over 17,000pounds of freshvegetables to localfood pantries.


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Janet NewbergerA.L. & Linda Nickerson

Kelley R. PageCrystin & Lonnie Pleasants

Shirley Pollock Jan Pruitt

John & Peggy RalstonLance Rasbridge & Diane Sumoski

Rosa L. SchachleBeverly Samuels

Amanda VanhoozierJim VarnumAnn Whittus


GICD S UPPORTERS F ALL 2005-F ALL 2006

Communities Foundation of Texas

Heifer InternationalJP Morgan Chase Bank Les Dames Descoffier

Nash Family Foundation

Steven & Linda AliLorlee C. BartosNaud Burnett IIEldora ChambersBeverly K. CunninghamMark DeHavenJanet DeLeeConnie & Ted DornseiferNicholas FrenchMary Margaret Halleck Joanna HamptonLarry M. HarringtonCher & David JacobsMurray & Michelina Leaf

Gary & Sara AhrBarbara BaughmanNoel & Jeannie Barrick Carolyn BushLarry Cooper & Ann McGee-CooperDarlene Smith & Jay DowlingJim & Linda Hobbs

Tom & Pungut KorytowskiDon & Tiah Lambert

Mary RidgwayJudson Mark Sinclair

Mr. & Mrs. Darwin SmithMelvin Wheeler & Sons

Elizabeth & Jeffrey ZuckerBruce Miller NurseryCasa Flora, Inc.Cingular Wireless

First Tennessee Bank Foleys

Green Lake NurserySybil Koss

Jimmys Food StoreLandscape Systems of Texas

North Haven GardensNortexPepsico

Preservation Tree ServicesRohdes (GreenSense)

Ruibals Plants of TexasStaples

StarbucksVickery Wholesale Greenhouse

Waltons NurseryWhole Foods

Y-C Nursery, Inc.

R-Delta Engineering, Inc.

Linda AhrensPeter ODonnell, Jr.Robert M. Smelick

Sparks Osteopathic Foundation

Abdulkadir Lee AbdiHoracio & Shirley Acevedo

Albi & Peter AssmanSubapote Atiyawijitr

Eric & Catherine Barr Mrs. Theodore Bartosiewicz

Jane Blair Rose J. BlatchFrances A. Boddeker

Jack Boedeker Sophia Brown

Janie Buck Melinda Cappaert

Joyce Carr Roger & Lorraine Carroll

Kim CattlesCarroll Ann Clem

Jane CockrellGloria Conner

J.L. Cordova

Melinda Cowart Norsiah Y. DanielsBeverly DavidsonLauren De CillisLinda DePhillips

Janet Corrales DorwardKaren Downey

Phillip A. EsparzaBryce & Patricia Farrar

Roger & Patty Frederick Lucinda Galey

Don Croll & Jan GartenbergSharan & Lynn Goldstein

Angela Grancea

Mariana GreeneBobby HairgroveSena HairgroveAlex HalikiasKate HarrisCathi HaugFelicia Hays

Carolyn HenebryH.C. Henry

Mrs. David A. HillAlthea & Shannon Hills

Rachelle HinsonRoxanne G. Hodge

Debra HodgesJune Hubble

Carmen InfantasDenise Janick

Patrice JennisonRobin KosbergDaniel Kunsch

Jeffrey & Noy LambHelen LambertElizabeth Lee

Nancy O. LemmonLoung Nyuk LeungPatricia S. Locklair Jannette LockridgeCharles LustfieldKate Macaulay

Lisa H. MarshallDebra K. McEntireMarleen McGage

Deborah E. McVean


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Thanks to our Volunteer Teams!!

Cynthia MondellJadee Neal

Deborah OrrillPATH

Adrian PetersonSoporn & Khesey Pich

Harry & Alli PierceMary Potter

James & Joanne PrattBillie M. RasureLouise B. RaggioRebecca RiveraMarsha RubinGene RuckleRandall Rush

Cynthia Seltzer

Sandra ShinH. Edward Sholty

Eunice SmithRebecca Smith

Linda SnowMorris Stein

Ronald TeutschRosa L. Thompson

Merry TrujilloQui Thi VoLynn Vogt

Cindy Wabner Valerie Warner Carol Weinstein Nancy Wilson

Debra Wissink


Helping HandsBetty & Daryl Cordell

Konkoku Aka Nancy ChoTracy Cho

Nari ChoiMartin Hernandez

Service for PeaceStacey Cho, Leader

Nam Young KooSam KooKujo Okamura

Nan Suk Park Tony ChanIan ChenPeppe ChiangChanta KhievKarin KimJeff LeeLily Lemons

APEX (Asian Professional Exec.)Stephanie Liao, Leader

Tracey NguyenSokhay PrumMichael TsaoJulie VoJeff Wagner Shirley Yu

Lee Abdulkadir Chit ExSue & Van KeovixayCarolyn MarvelAbdi MohamedKrath Mou

Old East Dallas Gardens

Mon NgethLeap PinSan SeinKuh & Karo TawSavorn TouchPrak Voeun

Cathi HaugMargaret MoodyEd SholtyRebecca SmithThompson Family

Greenland Hills UMCSummer Holbrook, Leader

12 youth

Northridge PresbyterianPat Felter and Melanie Towb, Leaders20 youth

Youth Service:

StarbucksMake Your Mark Cathi Haug, Leader

Jason BrownBrynne ChisholmMike ChisholmEric HaggardRachelle HinsonKelly HollwayHeather Kingsmore

Jennifer LewisPaul McDonaldPatric McQuearySyler RayRoger RushingKimberly Rushing

Cathedral Gardens, weekly harvestsRev. Deacon Nona Payne, Leader

Bettye AndersonKen FlemingRon & Mary EcholsFrances Lee Galey

John GaleyGary Killian

Carolyn LanghamRosemary MartinDale SanchezLilia Sanchez

Nina Skinner David AndersonBrittany BenchGary &

Melinda ClintonRichard CoreyCassandra deLariosJoan & Jim DevineRicardo GarciaMyrna Gorchoff Sarah Harsdorff Thomas JenkinsPhilomena &

Hope Garden TeamCarolyn Bush, Coordinator

Nicholas JonesKate MacaulayOrtiz FamilyBrandon &

Susan PollardJennifer Sanoja-GattisEric SchmidtPat SmithSandy SteinKaren Suggs

Nancy Wilson

Heifer Team Mary Ridgway, Leader

Mary CathcartCristina DominquezDiane Prince KnightMargaret Reid

Paula ScottMaria Franco TapiaChristine Volkner

Growing and Giving Science ClubKatie Grimes, Group Leader Adults from 8 families plus 22 children

Boy Scout Troop 783Adult Leaders: Creighton Gary, WayneGary, Randy Moore, Steve Polansky,and Josh Weidler

Jonathan CabralesAntonio Cosby

Mauricio FierroPaulin FierroPinya IssaSila IssaLiaser KunaMathu Kuna

Flavio LujanAkiko Maus

Jose MolinaMalik PennieDarel RichardsonJosue RojasGolberto SalinasOscar Tellez

Our Saviour Church TeamRev. Raymond Jennison, congregation

and local community

Eastminster PresbyterianMiatta Wilson, Leader 15 youth

Fireside Recreation Summer YouthAmanda Brown, Leader 10 youth

GICD Garden Friends TeamBarbara BaughmanCarolyn BushLee Cobler Michael DiCarloMyrna Gorchoff Aaron Lambert

Tiah LambertBunyay NhonhA.L. NickersonEd SholtyDarlene SmithRebecca Smith

Our Saviour Garden TeamRebecca Smith, Coordinator

Sybil KossTerry LaguardiaTerry MorganLee StubbsJackie SwaffordJim SwaffordLaura Wilder

Amanda BrownSophia BrownLee & Maggie Cobler Helen DawkinsKatie GrimesCathi HaugChris Hodge

Gary AguileraPatsy AguileraBarbara BaughmanCarolyn BushBarbara Brown

Plant SalesTiah Lambert, Leader


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Home-Schooling in theCommunity Garden

by Katie Grimes

As I walk through the communitygarden at Our Saviour today, dirt cakedunder my fingernails, hands dry andraw from pullingweeds, kneessore fromkneeling, I

breathe deeplyand inhale theintoxicatingfragrance of

basil, tomato,damp earth, andthe rich scent of musty compost.I slow myself

long enough tonotice the ants bustling alongthe okra stalk,the translucentglowilluminating thesquash blossom, and the gossiping of the bees as they meet on the zinnias. Igather one of my three children besideme and together we marvel at themiracle of life that we are witnessing.

Seeking an education to nourish my

daughters holistically, I began toschool my children at home in 2005.This year, after being introduced to thecommunity garden by a family friendand volunteering there in the summer, Igathered a group of other home-schooling families with the promise of

an enriching experience in organicgardening. Each Wednesday as mydaughters and I meet other home-school families at Our Saviour for garden club activities, I am trulygrateful for the many benefits of thecommunity garden which enrich our

lives socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and cognitively.Under the exhaustive guidance of Becky Smith and Don Lambert, towhom we are indebted for our

productive plot, our fledgling club isfinding in the garden a wealth of

educational opportunities that span thedisciplines. Science opportunitiesabound as we study the structure,function, growth patterns, anddevelopment of plants; soilcomposition; the role of insects andother animals; and composting and

decomposition, among many other topics. Even the simple act of pullingweeds offers the child an opportunityto distinguish varieties of leaves andclassify plants. Math presents itself inthe form of data collection andinterpretation, graphs, tables, mapmaking, measurement, andcomparisons of weights and sizes. Weincorporate Language Arts through thesharing of garden-based literature,independent research, and journalwriting. Even History and Geographyhave a place in the garden as we learnof the plants' origin, lore, and past usesor recipes. While some of our activities use direct instruction, most of our learning takes place informally, asthe children make discoveries, ask questions, and seek answers.

The educational opportunities in thegarden are only part of the equation,however, in creating a holistic andenriching setting for school. Equally,we value the spiritual, social, andemotional benefits. Our souls arenourished and we feel God's presenceas we experience the miracle of newlife, the cycles of the seasons, theinfluence of the elements, and theecological interrelationships. Weanswer the call to love and serve our neighbor by donating our harvests to

feed the hungry. We connect with oneanother socially across familial andgenerational lines, as we work side byside: grandparent, parent, teen, child,and toddler. By working communally

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Hand in hand, we garden, parent and child


ACGA's 28th Annual Conference

Save the Date: August 9-12, 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts.

It is not too early to begin to plan to attend theAmerican Community Gardening Association 28th annual conference:

Beantown Digs Community Gardens

Consider being a presenter -- we are seeking proposals NOW! Thedeadline for proposals is December 15. The Call for Presentations application is now available.

Go to www.communitygarden.org/conferences.php for anapplication.


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Tiahs Garden Recipe:

Garden RatatouilleA ratatouille is a vegetable stew, usually made with eggplant, tomatoes, squash,peppers, and onions, seasoned with herbs and garlic. You can make ratatouillewith almost any kind of squash or edible gourd. So use what you prefer, like yel-low, zucchini or scallop squash. As a special variation try edible bottle gourds, likethe Italian cucuzzi ( Lagenaria siceraria var.). Recently I harvest some snake gourds ( Tricosanthesanguina var.) and peppers from my garden for my friend Lauren De Cillis. She made a delightfulsnake gourd ratatouille.Laurens Snake Gourd Ratatouille6 small snake gourds 1 bunch basil leaves1 lb. fresh okra can black olives1 clove garlic 1 can tomato paste, small can6 sweet red and yellow peppers 1 TBS olive oilWash, slice and chop all veggies, saut in olive oil, medium-high until tender (about 20-30 minutes).Add 1 small can tomato paste and stir into the veggie mixture, lower heat and simmer for another 15minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Great over pasta!

Become a Community Gardening Supporter

Individual or Group Business or Corporation

Principal Supporter $1000 or more ____ Program Supporter $1500 or more ____

Organizations $ 35 ____ Garden Supporter $ 500 ____

Individual/Family $ 25 ____ Small Project $ 250 ____

Other Amount $ ______________

Make checks payable to: GICD Gardeners in Community Development is a 501(C)(3) organization

Please mail your contribution to: GICD, 901 Greenbriar Lane, Richardson, TX 75080

Your name ________________________________________________________ Email __________________________

Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________

City __________________________________ Zip ___________________ Phone ____________________

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in the garden, there is even a sense of connection to our ancestors and to thegreater world as we develop anappreciation for their dependence uponthe earth's gifts, and hence a greater appreciation for our own bountiful life.

Finally, my sore knees and hips remindme, as the adrenaline rushes through

my veins and lifts my spirits, that thegarden benefits us physically as well.We leave our air conditioned caveslong enough to breathe the oxygen-richair that cleanses our lungs, to absorb thesun's rays that help our body produceVitamin D, and to stretch and

strengthen our muscles.With one child beside me singing the

praises of sauted Swiss chard, onechild up the garden path photographingthe splendor of each new bloom, andone young child racing between us,cheeks glowing with fresh radiance, Iam happy to be home-schooling andhappy to have a place in the community

garden.

GICDs Award Winning YearHearts of Hope Award , Our Saviour Garden Group, from North Texas Volunteer Center

Waterwise Xeriscape Award , Hope Community Garden, from Dallas Water Utilities Awards for Accountability, Passing on the Gift, and the Environment , GICD, from Heifer International USA


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Fall 2006

Gardeners in Community Development Growing People News 901 Greenbriar LaneRichardson, TX 75080

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Go to IGIVE.COM , register as a Gardeners in

Community Development supporter. Then shop onlinewhile you help us grow more and better gardens toimprove life in our cities. Thank you!

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