Fresh Produce and Camaraderie at Bellevue Community Gardens

I was thinking about Barbara Kingsolver’s book, ”Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”, as I explored Delaware’s Bellevue State Park community gardens last week. Her book chronicles the saga of her family’s yearlong commitment to eat only food they could grow themselves and to fully experience the impact of eating local. Bellevue has been offering garden plots to the public for almost 30 years. Today there are nearly 200 of them. They are tilled by families committed to cultivating seasonal crops in hopes of bring fresh food to their family tables and helping their children see where food really comes from, goals similar... Read more →