Youth in Ingersoll learning to maintain a veggie garden
INGERSOLL - Youth in Ingersoll are learning how to grow and maintain their own vegetable gardens.
A dozen youth at the Fusion Centre teamed up with the Ingersoll District Natural Club as well as Compass Partnership to create the no-dig, raised beds.
Community Outreach Engager Robin House says they built a Hugelkulture Garden which is a self sustaining and resilient.
"The construction is; remove the sod, put down big branches/logs/tree trunks then fill it with some branches, take the sod that you had taken off, turn it upside down so it's grass side down, layer in the mulch and then top it off with fresh top soil."
House says they originally wanted to plant a flower garden but Fusion was concerned about bees as several youth now have allergies to the winged insect.
"Very few people grow gardens anymore and you see a lot of community gardens coming up. I think this fits right in with our train of thought right now of creating educational awareness and environmental awareness in the community."
Robin House says this year the youth with have a soup-a-licious event to celebrate the fact they were able to grow a garden.
"In the future what they do with it, I believe they are going to tie it in with the Duke Of Edinburgh Awards and we've also arranged some local Horticultural Society members are going to be coming and doing some talks with the kids on how to maintain the garden, how to harvest the garden."
House says the project came in at no cost after several businesses donated supplies, labour and expertise to the project.
She hopes to expand the program next year.
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