PT Food Security and Culture

The Food Bank Growers are happy to start a second chapter with the Blessings Garden at the First Church of Christ Science. As one of the original food bank gardens, we are excited to have some beds back in production for the food bank.

Community Kitchen is available with a paid staff member to oversee cooking operations. Contact the PT School District for more information and rates.

Before he passed away in 2019, Brian Glaspell cultivated this garden for many years, donating the majority of the produce to the PT Food Bank, usually about 5,000 lbs per year. His wife, Jeanie, was very happy to discover the Food Bank Growers organization and host the return of the garden's ability to provide for  the food bank.

On the corner of Hastings and Sheridan, this garden has been growing food and friendship since 2007.  As a Community garden first, the produce coming out of this garden goes to those in the "community" who till and tend the garden. A row has been dedicated to the Food Bank and that produce goes directly into the Food Bank.

Located behind the Unity Church on San Juan Ave., the vegetable and berry garden is tended by fifteen neighborhood or church members.

The NBCG is around 30 years old this year and has served the surrounding community well. In a typical year, 6-8 families work together in the garden, preparing beds, planting and harvesting organic produce for their families.

The orchard began in 2010 and now has 70 trees producing over 1500 pounds of fruit for students to eat fresh or go to the food bank when school isn't in session. To learn about individual tree types, their production, and their care go here: https://sites.google.com/site/blueheronschoolorchard/

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