Another Year of Hard Work at the Ada Street Garden
Summer has come to an end, and we have harvested most of our produce. It’s time to put the garden to bed for the winter.
Summer has come to an end, and we have harvested most of our produce. It’s time to put the garden to bed for the winter.
The “Feed Fannin/Barbara Ferer Research & Demonstration Garden” opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the unveiling of a sign on Aug. 8 next to the Fannin County Family Connection Food Pantry in Blue Ridge.
After a wet winter and temperatures near freezing at the latter part of April, May has arrived with dry, sunny days. There are exciting, yet challenging things that have been happening in the garden over the winter.
They say that adversity makes you stronger because it makes you adapt and find what you are capable of doing. If this is true, then I would say that gardening this year has taught us a few lessons.
For Feed Fannin volunteers, the garden is the heart and soul of our organization. In 2009, when Barbara Ferer had a vision of Feed Fannin, she gathered some friends, they found some land and they started to grow food to feed the hungry.