Aug 10th, 2011

Worth Their Weight in Gold

by Jonah Holland

by Albert Brian Vick  Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator

These three volunteers may have set a harvesting record yesterday in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. Within just three hours they collected ten cases of tomatoes and four cases of summer squash. We could go through the math of the retail value of 500 pounds of garden-fresh produce compared to the current price of an ounce of gold, but that really doesn’t begin to measure the true value of these volunteers.

Left to right: Matthew, Christine & Leigh still look fresh and chipper after harvesting 500 pounds of fresh produce for FeedMore's Community Kitchen.

Left to right: Matthew, Christine & Leigh still look fresh and chipper after harvesting 500 pounds of fresh produce for FeedMore's Community Kitchen.

About Jonah Holland

Jonah Holland is Digital Content Manager at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, where she has worked for 14 years overseeing social media, the blog, and the website. She is also a mom, yogi, open water swimmer, gardener, and seeker. She's been known to go for a walk in the Garden and come back with hundreds of plant photos, completely inspired to write her next blog post.

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