Start-Up

Part of winning was to give the money to a not-for-profit agency. I am fortunate to be a member of a new local Episcopal church, St. Brigit's Episcopal (http://www.stbrigit.org/). The church has some land that could be built on. So, now I have an amazing group to work with and land to build on:)



The first thing we did was to form a committee. We started meeting every Sunday after church to discuss and plan. Our initial meetings were focused on where to build on the land, how big should the garden be, what do we want to include, and forming a list of steps to be completed. A few decisions that quickly arose were:

- need for compost bins
- cinder blocks or other material for building raised beds
- need for aged manure or other compost type soil
- inclusion of local schools
- work with local food bank