This is not your normal vegetable garden. Eastover has teamed up with Friendship Gardens of Charlotte to donate food for Friendship Trays. Friendship Trays generally delivers more than 600 meals daily to elderly, handicapped, and convalescing people who are unable or greatly restricted in their ability to prepare or secure meals. Deliveries are at the lunch hour but the meal is a full one, more like what many people are accustomed to for dinner.
We also planted some new flowers in the outside lunch area where parents often eat with their children. We had many parent volunteers show up and ready to work with the building of the above ground beds. Most of the hard work involved filling up the beds with dirt. After lunch, we had about 20 students show up to help us plant seedlings. We planted spinach, collards, cabbage, onions, broccoli, and lettuce. The kids were a huge help.
Special thanks to Henry Owens from Friendship Gardens, and the parent volunteers especially Rick Mcmillon. Click on pictures to enlarge.
