Gardening provides my Family with Better Food all year round

As a young girl in Illinois my mother always grew wonderful tomatoes & peaches and one year my father rented the old High School's Football field and we planted it.  Over an acre of Corn and Watermelon and rows of other veggies grew in the hot, black, Illinois soil that year ....and we preserved much of it and it lasted our large family several years of jarred food and frozen food.  We never discussed "GMO"s or water quality or Organic, Sustainable Methods back then.   There just was no other way to grow.

Four decades later, I re-discovered the joy of growing delicious food for a large family, but the "family" was my community in Lakewood.  Community Gardening allows you to share seeds, starts, ideas and the final product and there is usually mush organic food left to donate to a good cause.

The most amazing thing that's happened for me in Community Gardening was a lady gave me all three of her white pumpkins - for my son's wedding two years ago in October.  I'd given her some popcorn for seeds.   I'd grown a few in my garden at home but hers were exactly what the wedding party wanted.

After the wedding, we cooked the pumpkins and they were delicious.  All organic and nutrition rich.

Cindy Monical, Bennet Bear Creek Neighborhood

Jun Key SuperFoods Co-op

and Lakewood Industries....