Springtime temps and the promise of colorful flowers and garden greenery brought 16 local residents out to Feed Fannin’s first class of the year at Quinn’s Greenhouse in McCaysville on March 17.
The Feed Fannin Education Committee held two very successful classes in August and early September, continuing the Feed Fannin mission to inform, educate and train members of the public who want to learn to be more self-sufficient in growing, preserving and preparing their own food.
They say that adversity makes you stronger because it makes you adapt and find what you are capable of doing. If this is true, then I would say that gardening this year has taught us a few lessons.
“If you build it they will come” may be from the movie A Field of Dreams, but is has also proven true for the Cool Kids Grow Garden Club and other STEM-based programs at Blue Ridge Elementary School.
If the Ada Street Farm is the heart of Feed Fannin, then our volunteers are its soul. Feed Fannin began eight years ago with one simple vision—to grow vegetables to help feed the hungry in Fannin County.
An important part of Feed Fannin’s work is to provide information, education, and training to those who want to learn to be more self-sufficient in growing, preserving, and preparing their own food.
Feed Fannin believes that the love of gardening and eating healthy, garden grown foods is something that should be passed on from generation to generation. That’s why we support youth garden programs in our schools.
“Feed Fannin is the largest single contributor to the Family Connection Food Pantry in terms of money and volunteers,” says Family Connection Executive Director Sherry Morris.
For Feed Fannin volunteers, the garden is the heart and soul of our organization. In 2009, when Barbara Ferer had a vision of Feed Fannin, she gathered some friends, they found some land and they started to grow food to feed the hungry.
Feed Fannin’s annual fundraising event, Bowls of Hope, held on March 18 at beautiful Willow Creek Falls in Blue Ridge, was a smashing success.
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