This past summer, I was an AmeriCorps member through the Volunteer Center of Story County (VCSC) as a Summer Garden Associate. That’s a fancy title for someone who got to work at community gardens around Ames. I got the pleasure of working at 3 different gardens; two were elementary school gardens and one was a community garden. The latter was called the Service Patch and it’s special because it’s a small plot of land donated by the Trinity Christian Reformed Church to the VCSC to be able to start up a garden that would donate its produce to local food pantries. The volunteers that worked at the garden come from various backgrounds such as Youth and Shelter Services and AgCulture, a Youth Food and Farm Group.
How is this related to Woman Scorned? Well this past Friday, some Scorned ladies got to experience the garden themselves! We learned a few things about cooking certain produce as well as get a chance to give back to the great community of Ames, Iowa. And it makes it look like we have a life outside of Ultimate Frisbee 🙂
Enjoy.
