How I Spend My Summers

Last summer I was given the great opportunity to work at Godman Guild in the Weinland Park Community Garden (WPCG) as an assistant supervisor to 15 youth in their Summer Teen Employment Program (S.T.E.P.) used to employ hundreds of youth at different job sites around the Columbus area. In this position last year I had the pleasure of meeting a lady who is now MY supervisor here at Local Matters (Trish). She saw the dedication that I had to the kids in the program and thought that I would be a great fit as a Food Educator.

So now, a year later, as school days have ended, I started my transition back to Godman Guild for work in the WPCG now as SUPERVISOR. (whoo hoo!)

We have wrapped up our recruitment at the S.T.E.P. job fair, and for the FIRST time, people actually WANTED to work in the garden! I was so excited! We had to add a position (we only had 8 but hired 9)

My new partner in gardening Lisa Houser, a science teacher at Columbus Premier Academy (a charter school on the east side), and I are ready to hit the ground running on this venture to teach these teens all about how to build sustainable communities and nutrition.

Drumroll please.....

This year we are building a greenhouse! (We are also building cold frames, but those don't excite me as much as the greenhouse. lol)

I invite all of you loyal LM Blog Readers to come see the greenhouse on July 17th at the Weinland Park Community Garden @ Godman Guild where we will also be doing a BIKE GIVEAWAY!