THE BIG DIG

Feeding the disadvantaged from their own organic gardens.

The BIG DIG I’m referring to here is not the $15 billion dollar leaking tunnel in Boston, but a community organization that helps the needy feed themselves here in Austin, Texas called the Green Corn Project.
"The Green Corn Project (GCP) is a 501(c) (3) organization that educates and assists Central Texans in growing organic food gardens. Since our founding in 1998, GCP has built over 130 organic food gardens at homes, schools, and community centers in Central Texas. Our programs help folks with limited access to healthy food, grow their own vegetables in ways that are affordable, promote self-reliance, strengthen communities, and protect natural resources." www.greencornproject.org

Today is the first day of the Green Corn Spring planting season. Every weekend in March, 5-6 groups of volunteers will create organic gardens for people who are in need financially, in ill health, or any other circumstance that prevents them from obtaining fresh, wholesome, organic vegetables.
Fresh, homegrown organic vegetables are God’s medicine. Not only do they taste delicious, but they contain vitamins, light, minerals, and life energy.
Some of the people who get these Green Corn Project gardens taste real, healing food for the first time in their lives.
Here are a few photos of our team’s two gardens that were dug and planted from scratch earlier today.
Dig in. Get your hands dirty. Give someone their own Garden of Eden.
Richard
www.greencornproject.org