Bucket Gardens Are Back Again
The Food Bank of Central New York and Cornell Cooperative Extensions of Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties will help distribute more than 400 tomato plants to north country residents through the annual Garden-in-a-Bucket program.
Three-hundred bucket gardens, which are made up of a 5-gallon plastic bucket drilled with holes, filled with soil, and planted with a tomato seedling, were distributed last week to Jefferson County food pantries.
Many of the bucket gardens already have been disbursed to local communities, providing fresh food for meals.
The hope is this might spark some interest in those that use food pantries to do a little more gardening.
Jefferson County’s buckets were put together May 26 by about 30 students in the LaFargeville Advantage after-school program. The Food Bank provided funding for the program, while Five Cedars Greenhouse, Theresa, donated 300 tomato plants for the Jefferson County bucket gardens.
The Food Bank has offered its Garden-in-a-Bucket program for the past six years. The whole idea of a garden in a bucket is a way to show people how they can stretch their dollars, whether it’s through home gardening or buying seeds with food stamps. It’s a great program that anyone can do, and it comes with instructions on how to garden.
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