The building of the lasagna beds in Staunton Virginia at the community
garden site is ready to finally begin! This Saturday, our environmental
capstone class will join the heads of the Transition Staunton organization and
begin the construction and filling of the raised lasagna beds. Our class is
also fortunate enough to be able to provide the Transition Staunton group with
a modest monetary donation that will now allow the number of the beds to double
from the original amount, four, to between eight and ten. This is excellent
news as this will now allow them to implement their Noon Lunch Program, which
according to Lindsay Curren, one of the leaders in the Transition Staunton
organization, “is a free weekday feeding program for the hungry”. We are more
than pleased to hear that this is program, for the benefit of the less
fortunate, is being sped up due to the generosity and efforts put forth by our
class and Roanoke College.
Joseph Lombard, of the Local
Food Task Force in Staunton, has been working on the Elizabethan apple planting
project, which are still scheduled to be planted on April 9th. Additionally he
has been aiding us in gathering food waste from venues in downtown Staunton to
supply the beds with organic material. We are more than pleased to be a part of
this amazing project in this transitioning town. Thank you to Lindsay Current
for all her assistance as well as Joseph Lombard for giving us the Staunton
perspective and acting as a liaison between our class and our Staunton
associates! Can't wait to go garden on Saturday!!!
Joseph Lombard is a fake and he doesn't know what he's doing. I think he's on drugs as wel.
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