As part of Just Food, we’ve started a garden in our own backyard to benefit the Warming Center, Community Meals, and our church community. The garden affords members of our community the opportunity to learn gardening techniques and share time in the dirt together, as well as tend vegetables that may be used to supplement monthly Community Meals. If you have a green thumb, or you’d like to develop one, please contact Angie Alvarado-Ecker to volunteer. ResCov also partners with Edgebrook Covenant Church in the pooling of our harvests to benefit the Warming Center, community meals, and more.
Composting
Along with the work of planting, pulling weeds, and harvesting we also compost. Composting is basically human-managed decomposition. As plant matter breaks down it creates nutrient rich soil that can be used to create a healthy and productive garden. Composting also reduces the amount of trash we produce and allows organic materials to reenter nature’s life cycle.
We invite you to join us in composting. Simply take a container with a lid, such as an old coffee can, and save any organic materials you create through the week. When you come to ResCov you can bring it around to the east-side of the church where you will find a black bin you can dump it in. We can also use yard waste. Not everything can be composted though so view and print this list to learn what can and can’t be composted. We look forward to composting your scraps for our garden!
