Stacey Pennington kept a group of volunteers in high gear on May 23 at the community garden in Clifford.
The Town of Minto’s source water protection and building assistant Pennington along with Mayor George Bridge, Clifford Trails Committee chair Vic Palmer, Norwell District Secondary School teacher Michael Hendrick, and 12 Grade 10 Community Environment Leadership Program (CELP) students and one Grade 9 student accepted the challenge to prepare the 10 raised garden boxes for planting.
Ten wooden boxes were built by volunteers in the community and delivered to the site along with a large pile of gravel and another of earth supplied by All Treat Farms. Students dug shovelfuls of gravel to fill buckets that were rolled in wheelbarrows and dumped to fill each box half way full.
A wooden fence will be built to enclose the garden and keys will be given to each person who rents a raised garden bed for $10 a year. Contact Stacey Pennington at 519-338-2511 or stacey@town.minto.on.ca.
