Summer Youth Volunteers and the Teaching Garden: Growing Together

Summer Youth Volunteers and the Teaching Garden: Growing Together

Union Chapel’s SERVE week came at the perfect time – we’d just received our delivery of three raised beds from Vego Garden! These students assembled the beds and filled them with vegetables that will go on to be donated to our neighbors, as well as expand the capacity of our teaching garden.

The three L-shaped raised bed kits expand the capacity of our teaching garden while also making it more accessible to folks with mobility challenges that makes the ground-level gardens harder to access. Currently, they are growing asparagus, kale, and other leafy greens, and will be an excellent way to demonstrate companion planting in years to come.

The teaching component was utilized when Muncie Teen Internship Program volunteers dove headfirst into a fun challenge hosted by Forward STEPS. Armed only with infographic on leafy greens, the teens headed out to the Teaching Garden where they found, harvested, and cleaned their own kale.

Then, Carol, Forward STEPS Manager, led a cooking class, teaching them valuable knife skills and encouraging them to pick their own spices to make a kale slaw and nutritious nachos. Afterwards, they enjoyed the results while congratulating one another on a job well-done.

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