Wow! What a garden!!!
Breakthru House utilizes a garden for our client for both therapeutic reasons as well as to save money on nutritious foods!
We'd like to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped us with our garden:
Shanna Wood - for working weekly with the clients to research, plan, and prepare the garden plots - THANK YOU!!!
To our nurse volunteer, JoAnn Akers and The Pilot Club, along with Bob and Martha Forrest - for donating garden supplies - THANK YOU!!
To Kim Little, St. James UMC, and their FABULOUS volunteers for teaching us about composting and organic gardening, donating supplies, full-size plants and tools, and for a lot of hard work - THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
The garden is an exciting, therapeutic, and tangibly useful project for our clients! Check out this zucchini - the clients were amazed!!
The clients are reporting some squirrel issues - they are eating our tomatoes!!! Anyone have great organic remedies for keeping squirrels and other critters away?? Leave us a comment!!
by Melanie Storrusten, LCSW, Clinical Coordinator
