What an amazing year. I have discovered I love warm weather. Shorts, sandals, and beautiful clear nights have been abundant
this year. Transition into fall has been slow for me but now the season has wrapped me its own kind of warmth. Beautiful foliage and snow in the mountains have me dreaming of winter. This year has brought me a new appreciation of gardening. Not from the beautiful and designed but from the bounty of the earth. I watched the film ‘A Place at the Table’ and it stunned me to the core. To realize that a staggering amount of people are working and living in homes, yet still struggle to feed themselves and their families. Americans, not people in third world countries but right in our own very prosperous nation. Hungry. If you have a chance to see it do so, it will change your
outlook on the face of hunger in America.
Planting a vegetable garden every year is always high on my priority list. There is usually plenty to share and give to my friends and family but this year was different. The program ‘Plant a row for the hungry’ encouraged gardeners to help provide for the hungry in their own area. The vegetable garden this year was bountiful. I was able to donate over 150 pounds of fruit and vegetables to my local food bank. One of the most requested items at the food bank was fresh produce. They even take zucchini! I was only one gardener, think about the
food many gardeners together could donate.
Thankfulness this year is sharing the harvest, providing for strangers and encouraging others to help. Our blessings have a way of multiplying when shared.
Thank you clients, colleagues, and friends for sharing a part of yourself with me. Thank you for your continued support and encouragement. May those shared blessings continue in 2016.
