Connie Beach
As mid-summer approaches, a volunteer-tended community garden on Potts Street on Davidson’s West Side is beginning to bear fruit, and is meeting organizers’ goal of providing fresh produce to a local food pantry.
Connie Beach, who directs the community garden project with her husband Eddie, said 140 pounds of produce from the plot on the corner of Catawba and Potts Streets have been donated to the Loaves & Fishes food pantry at the Ada Jenkins Center on Gamble Street.
The garden was created this year on a plot of land that belongs to Davidson College, and has been financed by Davidson United Methodist Church.
Volunteer gardeners have been gathering to work on Wednesday evenings and Saturdays, watering, pulling weeds and performing other tasks at the site. Work first began back in March, and the group has now constructed raised beds and decorative entries and erected scarecrows.
Volunteers are now being organized into about a dozen “Green Thumb Crews” that will each be responsible for
tangner garden maintenance for a week per season.
