Garden in the News...

Check out this week's Scarborough Leader!  Thank you, Mike Kelley, for featuring the garden.

The idea for a community garden started two years ago at a series of community meetings Project G.R.A.C.E. hosted to determine how to best meet the needs of the Scarborough community.

“We looked at community issues of concern. One of those that really resonated with the group was being able to address hunger in the community,” said Steffi Cox, executive director of Project G.R.A.C.E.

Shortly after the community meetings, church leaders from St. Nicholas reached out and offered the side lawn as a space for the garden. In October 2014, the Scarborough Community Garden Steering Committee was formed. The committee ... met over the winter to make preparations for the garden.

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