Our new green tent gave us the opportunity to be present at community events – and to stay dry when it mattered. Thanks to our friends at Spark, we also displayed a colorful banner. You couldn’t miss us!
We were invited by Carol Fairbank to participate in the Greensboro Farmers Market on Wednesday afternoons during the summer. We sold Fair Trade items such as coffee, chocolate, and olive oil. We gave away homemade cookies. We also took the opportunity to inform market-goers of key social justice matters such as State amendments for Reproductive Freedom, Abolishment of Slavery, Milk with Dignity and a March for Our Lives protest against gun violence.
We made new friends at the market and enjoyed the food items, crafts, and lively entertainment every Wednesday afternoon. Here Alison Gardner and Ed discuss matters while Fair Trade items are offered – and it appears our cookies were all gone!
Greensboro went all out for the Funky Fourth with a successful auction to benefit Ukrainian families, and a lunch provided by Smith’s store and Kingdom Creamery. We decided to add free cookies, lemonade, and water. More than 20 dozen cookies, again from our talented bakers, flew off the table and into a crowd seemingly thrilled to be gathered on a warm day, for a good cause.
The summer days also produced an abundant community garden planted, tended, and harvested by many. Ed built three new wooden garden beds, and Black Dirt Farm donated 6 yards of composted fill. Plantings included heirloom Abenaki corn! A great harvest was collected for the local food pantry, and the spot on the Town Green became a gathering place on recycling day. One wonders what could spring up next on our Town Green?
On a chilly February afternoon, and then again in August, we fired up the campfire in our side yard for s’mores and hot dogs, enjoyed by a multigenerational crowd.
Several of the Deacons, along with Kyle, cut, transported, and erected our beautiful Christmas tree, having good fun with Jim Moffat.
Getting out and about in our community has been a reminder that there are many friends to be made and that the growing, making, and sharing of nature never goes out of fashion.