June 14, 2014
On Saturday June 14, members of the Community Garden from the Fe y Vida Abundante Church Center took a Basic Gardening Course offered by agronomist, Wilkin Encarnación, manager of the National Botanic Garden Seed Bank.
Children, teens and adults from the community took the course. As is characteristic of this community, they participated with a great deal of interest and enthusiasm while learning the basic concepts of managing a vegetable garden.
The length of the course was three hours, during which time students dealt with the following topics: vegetables and their importance, the different varieties of plants, sowing, caring for and harvesting their crops. They also learned about watering, sunlight and soil types as well as no-till farming, nurseries and transplanting.
We visited the vegetable garden and planted carrots and spinach. We looked over the tomato, cilantro and pepper plants. We made a plan to plant eggplant on Sunday.
Congratulations to the members of the Community Garden of the Fe y Vida Abundante Church Center Foundation for the positive results that their Community Garden is yielding so far.
