Health & Fitness
Giving Gardens to Those in Need
Even in DuPage County, many people do not have access to fresh produce. One Glen Ellyn resident resolves to help.
My husband and I were thinking about 2012 goals for our family, and agreed that volunteering was something we wanted to do more of. My first thought was Habitat for Humanity - I wanted to build veggie gardens for Habitat homes and educate the homeowners on how to support their families by growing their own food. Without knowing for sure if they would be accepting of the idea since their main focus is on shelter, I quickly registered for a new volunteer meeting.
Then, on a trip to the library with the kids, I found the book Reclaiming Our Food, by Tanya Denckla Cobb. I had taken the kids to the "adult section" of the library, which I hardly ever do because they are very, shall we say, boisterous children, and I am worried they will disturb the other patrons. We usually stay in the kid-friendly areas of the library. But this time, I was looking for a landscape graphics book, which I quickly found and headed back to the staircase to the children's area. On the way, we passed a shelf housing new arrivals and Reclaiming Our Food jumped out at me. I grabbed it and checked it out without reading anything more than the title.
It proved to be a serendipitous find, because I think the book has changed my life.
Read full post at Suddenly I Seed.
