City Square Community Garden

Organizers of the Apalachicola City Square Community Garden are inching forward in their quest to sow seeds that will not only bring forth a harvest of nutritious foods, but also create an opportunity for social interaction through community involvement.

Community garden coordinator, Karla Ambos reported that the group has submitted an application to the Fiskars Corporation for their Project Orange Thumb grant. Fiskars is a leading global supplier of consumer products for the home, garden, and outdoors. Based out of Finland, in 2003 the company launched Project Orange Thumb, which has already awarded more the 100 community groups, schools, churches and other organizations with more than $300,000 in total grants for their garden programs.

This year, the program will award 20 grants within the United States and Canada. Each will receive up to $1,500 in Fiskars garden tools and up to $800 in gardening-related materials (i.e. green goods).

As part of the grant process, the local garden group had to submit a creative piece that answered the following question.

Assume an alien landed on earth without speaking or understanding any language, but wants an answer to this: How does gardening make you feel?

To find the appropriate answer, members of the garden group combed the community taking photographs, and afterwards Nadine Kahn and Clarice Powell formatted the compilation of pictures into the following video for submission.

For more information on the activities of the community garden or on how to join, email Karla Ambos at dambos@mchsi.com.