I love our community. Even though we’ve lived in Central Ohio for over 20 years, there’s always something new to discover. Today, we were introduced to our community garden.
When our kids were young and I was a stay at home Mom, we had a garden every year. It was such fun with the kids – and the fresh veggies were delicious! As the kids grew up and moved out, my husband and I were busy with work and school and gardening fell by the wayside.
As life would have it, once we moved into a condo and no longer had a big backyard, we decided it would be fun to once again have a garden!
Today, I am thankful for community gardens.
Tonight was the ribbon-cutting, officially opening the Spring planting season. There are about forty gardens, 10×10 and 20×20. The township had the soil turned over and plots lined with string. There’s a bluebird project underway and also birdhouses for a certain type of swallow that visits each year. There are picnic tables and benches so the gardeners can pause for a rest. In the distant field, there is some kind of water garden project in development. It’s quiet. It’s peaceful.
About fifteen of the gardeners were there for the ribbon-cutting, a few firefighters, a couple local township trustees, and members of the township government. Someone took pictures for the local paper. The experienced gardeners shared expert tips and asked each other about various specialty plants. Us newbies were just hopeful we would have a harvest of some kind!
Our 15×20 plot was just $20 to lease for the season. I have a feeling, though, that the fun, the produce, the peace and the good neighboring we’ll experience will bring much more value than that; in fact, it will be priceless.
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