Jennifer Chamberlin
A St. Alphonsus School student poses with a sample of items that were harvested from the school's community garden and donated to the Ballard Food Bank Aug. 4.

St. Alphonsus donates harvest to Ballard Food Bank

By Robinson Newspapers Staff
08/09/2010

On Aug. 4, teachers, parents and students from St. Alphonsus School harvested seven medium-sized bags of a variety of vegetables and herbs from its new community garden and donated the produce to the Ballard Food Bank.

The volunteers at the food bank were appreciative and thanked the students for their hard work and for their donation.

A second harvest is planned for mid-September when class is back in session at the school, located at 5816 15th Ave. N.W.

St. Alphonsus' community garden opened with a 60-person ground breaking event in March and the garden is flourishing.

The school garden was the first stop in the Ballard Edible Garden Tour that took place in June.

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gardener donations

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 21:54.

If you are growing more food than you need. you may want to visit www.AmpleHarvest.org - a site that helps diminish hunger by enabling gardeners to share their garden produce/herbs with neighborhood food pantries.

The site is free both for the food pantries and the gardeners using it.

More than 2,500 food pantries nationwide are already on it and more are signing up daily.

It includes preferred delivery times, driving instructions to the pantry as well as (in many cases) information about store bought items also needed by the pantry (for after the growing season).

If your community has a food pantry, make sure they register on www.AmpleHarvest.org.