Margaret Freeman plants turnip alongside a visitor to Champney’s West.
A community cleanup hauling out 16 truckloads of garbage followed.
Champney’s West community development officer Shelley Blackmore says the community also had a barbeque and did trail maintenance work to commemorate the event.
The Newfoundland Power-sponsored project puts out calls for proposals to get communities inspired to create green spaces and awareness about the importance of enhancing the environment.
“We decided we would clean up our community. Discovery Regional Services came and told us the effects of even tiny pieces of garbage on marine life,” says Blackmore.
The grant of $3,000 was used to have a community lunch and build a raised community garden.
“We wanted something that would be unique and our own. We decided it should be in the shape of a fish. That was our own resident, Martin Hiscock, who said it should be a fish and he put pen to paper and he had the skills to build it,” Blackmore says.
Skilled gardeners have starting planting and if they have a good year, they plan to harvest their vegetables to have a big community jiggs dinner. They will be making sure the event doesn’t line up to Roots, Rants and Roars.
