Cultivating Hope and Resilience
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Cultivating Hope and Resilience
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Smokey BBQ
Are you looking for some award winning BBQ ?
We are bringing our BBQ offerings to local farmers markets – where you can taste the difference in person and bring some home to your own family .
Saturdays : Kensington Farm Market Sundays : Bethesda Cental www . oldsmokeybbq . us
Serendipity . Connections made through acquiring farm acreage in Gaithersburg via Land Link Montgomery gave rise to Tanya Doka Spandhla ’ s abundant and caring Passion to Seed Gardening . In turn , over several years , Tanya ’ s farm has donated hundreds of pounds of healthy produce to Manna Food Center benefiting community members in need . And , this year , through a chance encounter at a Black History Month gathering in Silver Spring , Tanya connected with Interfaith Work ’ s Women ’ s Center resulting in a local women ’ s shelter project : A Garden of Hope and Resilience . “ My goal ,” Tanya says , “ has been to share the therapeutic experience of gardening with the ladies at the shelter .”
Tanya has been humbled with the response to her project — first with donations of material needed for raised garden beds and vegetable plants from area farms including House in the Woods , Red Wiggler and Common Root Farm . And then there are the women , who help with planting or watering and as Tanya writes , “… tell me that it ’ s good therapy for their souls , just walking out of their dwellings and seeing the growing peas , lettuce , tomatoes , onions and cheerful flowers right at their doorstep .” She adds , “ Engaging the ladies at the shelter through gardening gives them hope and resilience no matter what challenges they are facing at that point in time in their lives . So it is a win-win situation to all involved .”
For more information , visit : www . passiontoseedgardening . net and www . iworksmc . org
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Busy to Cook ?
Let us prepare meals for you and for those special folks you care about ! Delicious homemade meals , delivered fresh !
EAT Well be well
We look forward to serving you !
202-438-7876 www . ew-bw . com
Tanya Splandhla prepares raised garden beds for women at the shelter .
48 plenty I summer growing 2023