The Garden
Welcome to our community of gardeners! The Cape Community Garden at Maxwell's Farm is an organic garden located on land owned by the Maxwell family on Spurwink Avenue. It is located behind the former farm stand now occupied by the Ocean House Child Development Center. The Community Garden consists solely of its member gardeners and is coordinated by the Garden Committee. The garden relies on the financial support and cooperative efforts of all its members to maintain the garden. The better we work together, the more we all prosper from the enriched community we create.
Gardeners tend their own individual plots and surrounding paths and collectively maintain the area as needed. In addition to individual gardener’s plots, one plot is set aside for the day care children to plant and two plots are reserved to grow produce for local food pantries through a program called Plant-a-Row for the Hungry.
The program (known as PAR) is coordinated by Wendy Garland and Marybeth Richardson; other gardeners pitch in to plant, tend, harvest and deliver, or to donate extra vegetables from their own plots. During the previous eight seasons, the Community Garden at Gull Crest has donated 1941 pounds of fresh produce and the Maxwell garden contributed another 89 pounds last summer – a great result given our late start and difficult season.
Gardeners tend their own individual plots and surrounding paths and collectively maintain the area as needed. In addition to individual gardener’s plots, one plot is set aside for the day care children to plant and two plots are reserved to grow produce for local food pantries through a program called Plant-a-Row for the Hungry.
The program (known as PAR) is coordinated by Wendy Garland and Marybeth Richardson; other gardeners pitch in to plant, tend, harvest and deliver, or to donate extra vegetables from their own plots. During the previous eight seasons, the Community Garden at Gull Crest has donated 1941 pounds of fresh produce and the Maxwell garden contributed another 89 pounds last summer – a great result given our late start and difficult season.
Garden at Maxwell's
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