Elsmere Community Garden

Today I’m taking a break from being relentlessly negative and critical and discussing something positive: The Elsmere Community Garden.

A group of neighbors and volunteers in Elsmere has been coming together for months now to plan a community garden at an unused tennis court in our neighborhood. It’s something that we hope will bring fresh food and improve the community. We have been meeting regularly and raising funds and planning out our agricultural venture.

Last weekend things really started to take shape as we broke ground and started building the garden. We have 16 beds, which will be filled with all manner of seeds and plants for the spring and summer. A group of very dedicated volunteers came out to build the beds and haul the huge amounts of compost into them.

I cannot overemphasize the amount of compost we moved.

The amount of volunteers who helped was impressive considering the two days of cold, heavy rain we had. By the end, we were soaked and covered in mud and aching. But it was satisfying to see the 16 beds up and ready to be filled and it will be even more satisfying to see the cornucopia that will follow.