Though temperatures are low, you can still smell that spring is coming right up. Now’s the time that many Wallingfordians start planning their edible gardens. Here’s a way you can use your green thumb to help feed fresh produce to others.
Sustainable Wallingford’s Greenhouse Project is seeking volunteers to help grow fresh organic produce for local food banks in a South Wallingford greenhouse. Volunteers grow thousands of vegetable starts, which then will be distributed by Lettuce Link to P-Patches around the city. All vegetables will then be donated to food banks.
The Greenhouse Project wants volunteers who can commit to spending approximately an hour at the greenhouse one day per week during the growing season (March-June).
If you’re interested in volunteering for the local greenhouse project there is an orientation and workshop tomorrow, February 26, 10:00am-12:00pm at Solid Ground (1501 N. 45th Street). Meet in the first-floor conference room at Solid Ground; enter through the back of the building, near the parking lot.
Please RSVP to Abby Klingbeil at abbyklingbeil@yahoo.com.
Read more about the program in this 2009 Seattle Times article.
