Today is the thirty day marker as a research assistant with the Youth Garden Project. It was a B-A-N-G!! Today's location was at the Lee County community garden and community market.
It was exciting and informative! The Lee County community garden gave me ideas of how to better support the position of the plants at Tuskegee University's Greenhouse--especially the tomato plants. I harvested okra, red and green tmatoes. I helped Ashton pick green tomatoes and we were allowed to take them home. "Yummy yummy in my tommy!" Before Ashton, Morgan, and I arrived at the garden, the junior interns harvested the squash. The food harvested at the community garden is taken to the food bank where is distributed among the qualified need-based citizens of Lee County.
At the community market, Ms. Elise Loft[market director]gave us a some brief background information on the market. She told us that qualified families that have a household of 2-3 indivduals can recieve 100 pounds worth of food. She also encourage to volunteer espcailly on Fridays and/or Saturdays because of the increase in traffic flow into the market on those days.
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