Gardening Pastor a Five Year Partner
Mount Calvary Holy Church raises food for its weekly feeding program
in this garden in Dorchester. Bishop Nellie Yarborough obtained
the land and established the garden back when BUG (Boston Urban
Gardeners) was founded. Pastor Yarborough and Environmental Partnerships
teamed up in 1998. In the last 2 years she and EP have designed
a perennial border for the garden's perimeter. It's an urban garden
challenge of finding hardy plants. Mount Calvary Church's garden
is at 9-19 Otisfield St., at the corner of Blue Hill Ave. near
Grove Hall.
HS Student garden plot
In spring, 2001, EP put together a community service learning
program for bilingual Chinese-high school students at the Berkeley
St. Community Garden.
Gardener’s Certificate for church gardeners
EP recruited 3 church members from 2 Roxbury churches to attend
Garden Futures’ Gardener’s Certificate Program in 2001.
Graduates’ 40 volunteer hours can be worked at their churches!
Fresh food for food pantries
In 2000 EP developed a pilot program for suburban churches
to buy shares of the harvest of an urban/rural farm collaborative,
then contribute their share to food pantries at Boston partner
churches.
Urban church "Quiet Garden"
EP and WAITT House (We Are All in This Together, an adult
ESL program of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Roxbury) are
developing a garden that the community and students will share.
Waking up gardens
Parents and children helped put the Food Project’s Lincoln
farm to bed last Nov. and will help "Awaken the Garden",
in Spring, 2002, co-sponsored with the Outreach Committee, Church
of Epiphany, Winchester.
