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Other than a cold breeze, the weather was perfect when the Indigo Lake Estates Garden Club volunteered at Helping Hands Community Garden on Oct. 27.
Eight members of the Indigo Lakes Estates Garden Club worked through the morning to install a brick walk around the garden’s greenhouse. The club members also weeded, watered the raised garden beds, provided tar paper for weed control between the beds, and filled low spots in the garden with recycled soil taken from the bricked walk. One family, the Williams, willingly accepted homework; taking some bricks to cut to size for some openings in the brick walk.
Garden Director Judy Rose greeted the volunteers that morning with a brief history of the garden. Nine years ago as her daughter suffered from Anorexia Nervosa, Rose “felt God calling her to plant a garden that would feed the hungry.” That garden is now located at 31355 Friendship Ln. in Magnolia.
Volunteers tend the beds which provide fresh vegetables, herbs, berries and fruit to those in need in the community, mostly through the Society of Samaritans, a Magnolia-based non-profit social service agency.
Rose encourages the general public to grow their own vegetables in this garden. Rose and other volunteers are there to provide educational assistance, as well as hands-on help. Rose is a Montgomery County Master Gardener who enjoys organic gardening and readily shares her knowledge and experience, with anyone who wants to learn.
The garden is also an community service site for approved Master Gardener hours, Boy Scout troops, Honor Society hours, high school students needing community service hours for their college applications, and community service as appointed by a judge.
The garden is in need of a corporate sponsor, or a grant, to provide the remaining funding for a Rainwater Collection System which will provide irrigation water for the garden. The county has approved the system and the garden is ready to make use of the collected pure water.
The garden has raised nearly half the money needed for the Rainwater Collection System, through an annual Mega Garage Sale and its Paper Recycling Bins located at the front edge of the parking lot. Still needed are tar paper (for between beds, large watering trough (rusted out bottom is fine), wood lattice, bagged pine needles, rotted manure, and volunteers.
Especially those who want to be the garden’s grape handler, or those who want to help with the spring painting of the garden’s buildings. And volunteers don't need to be an experienced gardener to help.
Those who can help in any way should contact Rose at 281-356-8743.
Online
If you would like to learn more about the garden, visit the website www.magnoliatexas.org/helpinghands.
Eight members of the Indigo Lakes Estates Garden Club worked through the morning to install a brick walk around the garden’s greenhouse. The club members also weeded, watered the raised garden beds, provided tar paper for weed control between the beds, and filled low spots in the garden with recycled soil taken from the bricked walk. One family, the Williams, willingly accepted homework; taking some bricks to cut to size for some openings in the brick walk.
Garden Director Judy Rose greeted the volunteers that morning with a brief history of the garden. Nine years ago as her daughter suffered from Anorexia Nervosa, Rose “felt God calling her to plant a garden that would feed the hungry.” That garden is now located at 31355 Friendship Ln. in Magnolia.
Volunteers tend the beds which provide fresh vegetables, herbs, berries and fruit to those in need in the community, mostly through the Society of Samaritans, a Magnolia-based non-profit social service agency.
Rose encourages the general public to grow their own vegetables in this garden. Rose and other volunteers are there to provide educational assistance, as well as hands-on help. Rose is a Montgomery County Master Gardener who enjoys organic gardening and readily shares her knowledge and experience, with anyone who wants to learn.
The garden is also an community service site for approved Master Gardener hours, Boy Scout troops, Honor Society hours, high school students needing community service hours for their college applications, and community service as appointed by a judge.
The garden is in need of a corporate sponsor, or a grant, to provide the remaining funding for a Rainwater Collection System which will provide irrigation water for the garden. The county has approved the system and the garden is ready to make use of the collected pure water.
The garden has raised nearly half the money needed for the Rainwater Collection System, through an annual Mega Garage Sale and its Paper Recycling Bins located at the front edge of the parking lot. Still needed are tar paper (for between beds, large watering trough (rusted out bottom is fine), wood lattice, bagged pine needles, rotted manure, and volunteers.
Especially those who want to be the garden’s grape handler, or those who want to help with the spring painting of the garden’s buildings. And volunteers don't need to be an experienced gardener to help.
Those who can help in any way should contact Rose at 281-356-8743.
Online
If you would like to learn more about the garden, visit the website www.magnoliatexas.org/helpinghands.
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