Community Gardens Raise Spirits
Photo: Ruby Chard, Violas, parsley and ivy combined in a planter at Ft. Worth Botanical Garden Bruce Edwards, keynote speaker for Muskogee's Feb 21 community gardening event, is an experienced and enthusiastic community gardening coordinator. For the past five years, Edwards has been the Urban Harvest director for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. The ten year old program got started to support and sustain Oklahoma City community gardens in churches, schools and neighborhoods. Edwards said. At Urban Harvest Edwards works with volunteers to develop new gardens and sustain established ones. There is a list of their garden locations at http://www.regionalfoodbank.org/communitygardenlocations. Just like gardening, community gardens start with the seed of ideas, hopes, and dreams, Edwards said. Plant those in fertile minds so they can blossom and fruit. One of the topics Edwards will cover in his talk on the 21st is how to organize a group of people and establish goals, roles and des...