Celebrating spring at Redway School
The Redway School garden is one of several garden projects AmeriCorps members Crystal Damon, Alexa Roitman, Alex Fisher and Lauren Rios have been working on. They also help out with gardens in Fortuna and the Jefferson School garden in Eureka.
Americorps workers enroll for a ten and a half month stint. They receive a living stipend during that time and when their term is up they get an award to use for education.
Amy Termeer of the Redway Family Resource Council organized the event as part of the After School program at Redway School. She says the food grown in the garden is used in the After School program
She says the garden is being run as a group effort this year and all help with the project is appreciated.
”We need community members to come out and help us maintain the garden over the summer,” she says. “And when we get everything cleaned out and planted, we need some volunteers to help us maintain it when the kids aren’t in school.”
Community volunteers can contact Amy at the Family Resource Center. The phone number there is 923-1147.
Chavez, himself a farm worker, organized California farm workers and advocated for better working conditions and wages. The hard working gardeners were treated to snacks after their labors.
