The Real Values of a Vegetable Garden
The Real Values of a
Vegetable Garden
Have you ever thought about growing a vegetable garden? If you have you’re not alone. There are a lot of good reasons to grow your own vegetables.
I know that home grow
veggies are better than store bought and growing a garden, even a small one is
very good exercise. It’s also a fun family experience. Did you
know you could burn 250 to 325 calories an hour by gardening? No gym membership required. Just go outside and get involved in your
garden. Exercises are the beneficial
side effects of growing your own super foods, And when you grow your own food, you know exactly
what you’re eating because you know what’s in the soil, how it was fertilized,
if there were any chemicals used, and how it was harvested. That’s a very “GREEN” solution to putting healthy foods on the table which
are real values of raising a vegetable garden.
Big Ugly Community Center and the
Grow Appalachia program are sad to announce that Ester Gray, our Project
Coordinator, will be leaving us this week.
She has done a wonderful job and will be greatly missed. As much as we hate to see her leave, we know
she must move on to bigger and brighter things.
We wish her the best of
luck. From left
to right: Esther Gray, Marlena Workman & Annie Corathers
As for our youth group, their gardens
are doing very well. The kids are back
in school and will not have as much time to tend their gardens. They are looking forward to coming back to
the afterschool program, so they can work in their gardens again. They are very excited about the pumpkin
patch. Our site members are very
busy, harvesting their vegetables and
canning. We all have been very blessed
this year.
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