The EPH Garden Team was honored during the WPS Volunteer Awards last month as the Arts & Culture Category winner! Read what their nominator wrote about them below.
Culture is all the ways of life for a group, including the arts, language, clothing, the food we grow or buy, and how we eat it. Through vision and creation, this local group has taken seed to table, in both ideas and food, changing the way people access, taste and enjoy the bounty of their gardens. Hundreds of hours are spent planting, tilling, cultivating and harvesting to provide fresh, nurturing fruits and veggies. Creativity and love guide the brainstorming, planning, and plotting specifics each year, and family needs are a priority. Recipes that are simple and quick, matching specific produce grown in the gardens, are sought out by the team.
In their own kitchens, the team tests recipes, making improvements before they share them with families. In the future, they hope to see a community kitchen where families can gather for cooking and baking classes with their produce. What better way to cross bridges in the community than to share a kitchen and a family meal? Colleagues note that this group always carries the sunshine with them and “they leave their traces of creation in so many lives around them.”
Thank you, EPH Garden Team volunteers!