Growth Spurt

 

The Westside neighborhood of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, sprouted a green thumb this summer through the Westside Farm Project, a community garden initiative launched in the spring by the city’s Department of Community Development. With the help of volunteers, children from the area sowed seeds, tended their crops, and harvested the fruits—er, veggies—of their labor, which were donated to the Christian Center nearby and sold at the weekly Pittsfield Harvest Farmers’ Market on North Street.

 

The garden and its blossoming gardeners celebrate the end of the growing season with a Harvest Celebration on Saturday, October 3, featuring live music and food prepared by the Dancing Vegan using produce from the garden.

 

While simultaneously providing an enriching opportunity for youngsters, the Westside Farm Project reaped more than three hundred pounds of fresh produce—all of it organic—including tomatoes, squash, zucchini, greens, kohlrabi, potatoes, herbs, and their cash crop: sugar snap peas. [OCTOBER 2009]

 

THE GOODS

Westside Farm Project Harvest Celebration
Oct 3 at 11-3
148 Robbins Ave.
Pittsfield, Mass.