The Giving Has Begun

The harvest at Pendleton Community Garden is underway

Pendleton, Indiana Anywhere you look in Indiana, or any other part of the US, there are a going number of families whose tables are a lot less bountiful. There are a number of reasons this including the ever growing number of unemployed workers and the ever increasing rising food prices.

A large number of those in Indiana who are experiencing hunger in 2009 were children. While there was some help for them during the school year, many young people in Indiana experienced some of the worst times nutritionally seen in generations.

At the forefront in this battle against hunger here in Pendleton, Indiana is the Pendleton Community Library. Their goal is to donate 3,000 pounds of food to local Community Food Banks in 2009.

While a large number of people volunteered at the beginning of their garden project, this project has fallen almost completely on two people, Pendleton Library Director, Lynn Hobbs, and Tyler Geoff. Single handily they are steadily working to achieve the goal set at the beginning of this project.

Lynn credits Tyler has having performed most of the weekly garden upkeep over the course of the spring and summer. Working in his free time after Library hours and on weekends, Tyler has tirelessly maintained a garden that is today flourishing and producing a health of fresh vegetables that will end up on the tables of families in the Pendleton, Indiana community.

The harvest has begun. Lynn and Tyler have started delivering their bounty to the Food Bank here in Madison County. Throughout the balance of the summer and fall they will be continuing to make a day a bit brighter for a number of Madison County children and families.

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@Bradfordap, thanks for your nice comment. The Pendleton, Indiana Library is doing this again this year. Sad that it is only 1 or 2 people who actually make this happen. Both of them are great. Hope to have some info from them about this years project in the near future.

Thanks again.

George