Summer Youth Employment Program

Today was the first day for us to receive Jeremias as a worker at the Vance Garden. Jeremias is a senior at Trezevant High and is a part of the Memphis City Summer Employment Program. Jeremias will be working at the garden each Thursday during the summer.

Also with us today was Dylan, who is an intern with GrowMemphis this summer and a student at Christian Brothers University.

Together we planted some new flowers around our sign and began to fill up our compost bins with leaves.

*Thanks also go out to Patty Burch for the purple Salvia and letting us use her great leaf shredder - it worked great on those leaves - not so good on the piece of metal...

We're still needing to round up some manure compost from a place in Southaven - anyone up for piling some cow poop in your truck or trailer? The phone lines are wide open.