The G.R.OWN Foods program for girls is in need of some experienced and Master gardeners to provide periodic instruction and guidance to our group of girl gardeners in Silver Spring.
We are also in need of carpenters to help construct raised garden beds for our garden plots in Silver Spring.
G.R.OWN Foods stands for Girls Raising Our OWN Foods, and we strive to help girls get outside and learn to tend and grow a garden for their own consumption, and sell produce in their own booth in a local farmer's market.
We want to encourage healthy food choices and use gardening as a way to understand the food chain. Importantly, we hope to work with our girls to help establish a more reasonable pace of life by practicing patience and understanding the patterns and timing of seed-time-harvest.
If you have experience with seasonal or year-round vegetable, herb, and fruit gardening, and think you could provide hands-on instruction to a small group at your convenience, we would love for you to work with us. Workshops would take place at our garden plot in spring/summer weather-permitting, as well as indoors at library or other community-based locations in Silver Spring, Maryland.
For the fall season, we could use some expertise in how to create small indoor gardens, and how to preserve the soil and prepare the ground for winter.
In spring, we would like to learn about how to select seeds, grow seedlings, prepare fertile ground for planting, planting strategies, and various types of gardening - in and out of soil.
We are also in need of carpenters to teach our group how to build raised beds for gardening as well as indoor gardening shelves.
We hope to partner with Home Depot or Lowe's for donations of gardening and building supplies. We would be happy to have an adult volunteer to take on establishing that partnership and soliciting donations on our behalf.
https://bepurposefull.org/2019/10/14/girls-raising-own-foods/
