A Season of Hope: Food, Gardening and the Human Spirit

Our garden at the Community Day Center provides affordable and healthy food for our guests, brings nature into our backyard, and provides purposeful activities for our volunteers and guests. This blog, written by Catherine Lin and Marilyn Lee-Tom will track the progress of the garden - the planting and harvesting, the joys and challenges, the back stories, the manifestos on food politics and discourses on sustainability, of course, the food we are able to share at the table.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Doing Good, Honest and Respectable Work

The poet, naturalist and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands".

Here we are, the friends of the Day Center garden, doing good, honest and respectable work.

3 comments:

AnonymousApril 17, 2012 at 1:48 PM
When I go into the garden and plant a seed and watch it grow and then eat the produce, I feel my connection with the Earth and at one with all Earthly beings. We are the voice of the Earth. I'm so glad to be sharing this in the work of Healthy Waltham.
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Community Day Center of WalthamApril 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM
This Friday, April 20th from 1:30-4:00, at the Community Day Center garden we will celebrate Earth Week by planting more vegetables and edible flowers. All are welcome to help and be "connected to the Earth" as stated by Magic Berry Garden.
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Angela LordiApril 18, 2012 at 9:42 AM
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