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| HdG Seneca Avenue Community Garden |
The four existing community gardens are thriving. Available to be gardened by all residents, have attracted gardeners from nearby areas, and are a resource for others in Harford County who are interested in gardening or in forming new community gardens in their neighborhoods.
Every year our gardeners expand their gardening knowledge by sharing information, through training from the state's Master Gardener program and by experimenting with new types of garden structures, techniques, and plants. Some of our gardens are so bountiful that we have been able to share produce with those in need either through food donations at the local food kitchen or simply by placing baskets with produce near the garden entrances.
In 2016 we are looking to expand in a new direction by establishing a food forest at our garden on Seneca Avenue. A food forest is planted with fruit and nut trees, and berry bushes that can begin to yield harvest to table produce in 2 to 3 years and serve as a source of sustainable produce thereafter. The trees and bushes will be planted by gardeners and other volunteers. The food forest will be open to the community to explore and harvest. The above picture shows the HdG Seneca Avenue Community Garden and beyond that is the field and woods where the food forest will be planted.
Our Seneca Avenue garden is in a low-income neighborhood, and we plan to reach out to the neighbors to help make the food forest a valuable learning experience not only for the current gardeners but for other members of the community not currently engaged in our gardens. We want to interest them in the many benefits of raising food in many different ways so that they become community gardeners for the long-run.
Please consider contributing to our initiative to provide a quality environment where families can gather fruits, nuts, berries and other vegetable items from our Havre de Grace Food Forest Initiative by clicking the link and donating at: http://www.hdggreenteam.org/about.html
