Sharing Common Ground
Like a healthy ecosystem, we believe that everyone has something important and valuable to offer to our local and greater Earth community. We believe in bringing people with different backgrounds and strengths together to share common ground over food, learning and storytelling. We invite you to join us in celebrating nature's abundance and honoring our shared resilience and responsibility in the interconnection of everything.
News and Updates
As the school year draws ever nearer, the weekly summer MY Place garden classes come to a close - and that means one thing: PIZZA!!
It's become an annual tradition to make pizzas from the veggies they grew all summer long, and it's always a highlight of the summer season.
This year, Education & Program Manager Maisie added some extra VegPowerTM to the sauce much to the surprise of the students eating it. "I had made the pizza sauce with tomatoes, basil, parsley, sage, and onion from the children's garden, " said Maisie, "and added a bunch of extra veggies that were donated by Cedar Crate Farm as well..."
It took a little more work that usual to get the Community Gardens at Homestead Apartments up and running this year. The good reason was needing to expand due to growing demand, and the not so good reason was a late winter fire which destroyed the garden supply shed and everything inside, we are happy to report that we again have a functioning gardening space.
LEC would like to thank Garden Mentor Lynn Rozen for spearheading the post-fire recovery efforts. Lynn would like to thank the following people who contributed to the project with their time, talents, and treasure:
