Three local groups of volunteers have partnered to develop and maintain a community garden at the Fall River campus of Bristol Community College over the 2011 season, with plans to donate food from the garden to local food kitchens and other charities. A group of friends known as "The Good Gardeners", as well as volunteers from the Family Service Association Therapeutic Mentoring program and from People Incorporated. will plant and tend vegetables that will supply low income families with healthy produce. Hilary Hrutkay has outlined a plan to plant watermelon, pumpkins, cantaloupe, zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce. They also plan to plant beans, squash and corn together native style. Click here for photos of a recent session on composting and vermiculture. Click here to see photos of last year's community gardens. Click here to see photos of setting up the garden in 2009. Click here for the Fall River Community Garden Facebook page. For more information, contact Nicole Fortier, Community Gardens coordinator, at 508-679-6841.  
 

(Top row) Fall River Community Gardens Coordinator Nicole Fortier greets Paul Hankins at the Bristol Community College garden site on the south end of the campus, adjacent to Langley Street. (Top row, center) Hilary Hrutkay shows Leigh Hacker where to place the grass that has been removed from the soil. (Top row, right) Hilary displays the planting grid for the summer's vegetables. (Middle row) Hilary and volunteer Del Thurston work with a roto-tiller to prepare the soil for planting. (Bottom row, center) Volunteers Leigh Hacker, Paul Hankins, Hilary Hrutkay, Tony Gaglione, Del Thurston and Dennis Bench pose for a group photo.