COMMUNITY GARDEN

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April 17, 2010 (9 am - 11 am)

Prineville, like so many rural communities in Oregon is hungry.  Our statistics don’t look good.  We have 13.9% of our children being raised in homes below the poverty level and 68% of our public school children receive free and reduced lunch. Our local food bank is usually bare and rarely has fresh produce. 

The Prineville Presbyterian church saw this need and responded by sponsoring a one acre community garden on our property along Ochoco Creek. This garden allows residents, who currently use our local food bank, good soil and water at a nominal fee to grow their own vegetables.  The Prineville Community Garden has helped our congregation to live our vision.  The garden is an intergenerational place to share knowledge about gardening, grow healthy food for the poor, and to enjoy God’s bountiful blessings.

Together, we have enriched the soil, used youth workers to erect a deer fence and we installed an irrigation system that provides water to each plot. Our garden has become a work site for the at risk high school work crew. As well, we have planted an orchard, raspberries and strawberries within the fence (Click to Continue).