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Garden
Camp Fircom is growing!
Welcome to the community garden - our little piece of Eden! Camp Fircom has a large vegetable and herb garden behind Jubilee Hall that not only grows delicious produce for the camp and its visitors, but is also an education site to teach youth about sprouting, harvesting, and identifying herbs and plants. Last summer, kids also learned about pests, soil, compost, and the environmental benefits of home food production.
We grow lettuce, greens, basil, cilantro, oregano, mint, dill, bok choy, zucchini, cucumbers, squash, beans, and nasturtiums. Last summer we planted some more lasting features in our garden. We now have six blueberry bushes, a strawberry patch, and four apple trees! These are the kinds of delicious things that will keep people interested in gardening!
Special thanks to everyone's outstanding efforts over the summer: the superstar leaders who helped Neil build some benches for weary gardeners to sit on, the diggers, the clearers, the plant donors, the bed-builders, the compost diggers, and those who just came out to watch! Special thanks also to Chris Hiebert for his ongoing commitment to this project, and to Brian and Meghan's horses for all the manure!
At summer's end, we were able to sell off our surplus veggies at United Churches, and we raised $600 to put back into our garden. Good work everybody!
Let's keep Camp Fircom growing! We would love your unplanted seedlings next spring! If you want to get your hands dirty, learn about gardening and contribute to this garden please feel free to contact Neil at the Fircom Office to find out how you can get involved!
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