Our final season episode was packed with plenty of fabulous food, fun, and fellowship at our Final Fruits luncheon last month. We are so thankful to all of our garden members, garden angels, our community, and Concord UMC for their incredible support and prayers for our garden! We are so thankful to God for His leading in the creation of the Garden of Concord and the members He has graced us with to work and take care of His gift.
The fruits shared with each other were in abundance through many harvests of prayers, joys, and lots of fresh veggies! Beginning with our “Wake up the Garden” in March, our seasons were filled with many fresh beginnings and blessings to include 21 new family memberships along with 10 new feathered friends! We celebrated love at our First Fruits Luncheon, “Nurtured our Nutrition” with our summer garden series, ate lots of tomatoes at our “Tomato Sandwich Supper”, filled up on delicious dishes at our “Fall Harvest Dinner”, splashed on summer nights, and had an especially good thyme with the kidz!
While our garden is officially in slumber, the Brussels are still sprouting and the kale is still calling! The majority of our beds have been tucked in with cover crop and will be full of fresh energy for our new plantings in the spring. We are also still harvesting a variety of garden gifts to include notecards, postcards, prints, magnets, t-shirts, and calendars…all with beautiful photos of our garden taken by garden members. Your support will significantly help buy our seed and feed...for our plantings and our girls! Great Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers!!
We are planning another “Food and Faith” Bible study in January and will be providing the details soon. Also, mark your calendars for our 2012 “Wake up the Garden” tour and celebration on March 3, 2012!
Thank you again for your shared love of God’s creation in the Garden of Concord. Wishing you many seasons of blessings and harvests of joy through the New Year! It WILL be good!
-Donna Poe
Garden Coordinator
