Nine very capable and hard-working juniors from the Kimberton Waldorf School spent this week with Triskeles staff helping organizations in their community. At the same time, they got a good firsthand look at some of the great organizations which serve Chester County, and met and talked with the individuals behind them.

Hannah, Kieran, Hagay, TJ, Jacob, Danny, Brian, Jackson, Hytham--Thank You

Do you have to be well-to-do to eat well?  No–not if you raise healthy food yourself. And the community at Park Spring Apartments, in Spring City, has been doing just that. With Social Service Coordinator Ed Rodriguez and Triskeles, PSA put in a large garden last summer and grew organic foods. The KWS students worked with Ed and Mark Birdsall from Triskeles to make sure that the garden was ready to go again this spring. They also helped pick up donated food for the PSA residents. ‘They were wonderful, they got it all done,’  was Mr. Ed’s review of their help.

Ed Rodriguez talks with the KWS students about the importance of the garden for low-income residents.

Do students like healthy food?  At North Coventry Elementary School they do. They doubled the number of raised beds in their garden last fall with Triskeles’  help. Now all beds are ready to go with the KWS students’ assistance. In one day they filled all beds, weeded, dug in the cover crop–it’s READY TO GO. This is another good example of members of different communities in the same region collaborating to make everyone’s life better.

The new beds are ready to go

That's root structure!

As a finale, the students made container gardens with a ’self-watering’ reservoir of water out of storage bins. These will be shared with different communities and used to get folks of all ages back into the gardening groove.

Danny working on a container garden for Park Spring residents

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