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Rich Troyer, youth pastor with the Middlebury Church of the Brethren, examines some recently planted vegetables on one of numerous garden plots making up the church's community garden project. The project, now in its second year, allows church members to adopt a portion of church land on which to grow their own vegetables free of cost. JOHN KLINE | THE GOSHEN NEWS

May 24, 2010

Community gardens sprout up throughout Elkhart County

By JOHN KLINE THE GOSHEN NEWS The Goshen News Mon May 24, 2010, 05:30 PM EDT

GOSHEN — Sometimes to help your community, you’ve got to be willing to get your hands dirty.

According to David Schrock-Shenk, founder of Elkhart County Works Together, that’s exactly the idea behind the growing popularity of community gardening projects in the Goshen area.

Officials with ECWT, a local nonprofit responsible for establishing a job skills bank for the unemployed, recently jumped on the community gardening bandwagon themselves by coordinating numerous area garden projects of their own.

“There are people who because of the economic downturn absolutely need food,” Schrock-Shenk said. “We provide people with an opportunity to grow it,”

If individual families want a garden space, The ECWT can provide them with garden space, seeds, tilling, and even a garden buddy.

“So at the individual level,” Schrock-Shenk said, “it’s a matter of helping people survive, or sustain themselves.”

Read more about local community gardens in Tuesday's Goshen News.

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