To the editor:
Amazing things can happen when a community creates a project by dreaming one into existence. We did this on the Al Anderson Farm, creating the Langley Community Garden.
When you open the gate to the 16 plots, all now in cultivation, it is breathtaking to see the flourishing vegetables and flowers that have been growing since May. The phase that we are in now is exciting because it is our harvesting time. Every step is a learning experience for us because for many, these are the largest-scale garden lots we have ever tilled.
Together we are learning when to pick our vegetables, watching for insects and figuring out what to do organically. All while learning along the way what we will do differently next year.
Best of all, we are able to help our neighbors by giving fresh produce to Good Cheer and to the senior center; both are in great need right now.
This project was accomplished by so many. The garden wouldn’t have happened without the partnership of the city of Langley. Special thanks to Kathleen Landel and Glenn Leever for their work on behalf of the garden. Every gardener, besides growing their own garden plot, contributed hard work and financial support to different projects needed to make our garden a success.
The Langley Community Garden wishes to publicly thank and acknowledge the following individuals for their time, resources and efforts that they have put in to help make our garden flourish: Bob Arndt for being on call every time a measurement had to be done to start plotting our garden space; Nate Steele, Alessandro Potenziani and Gary and Chad Formhals for installing our fence; the Anderson family for the financial support for the fence; Angus Buchanan and Jim Knapp for plowing and rototilling; Ron Swenson, Dan Wallace, Mike Helland and Adam Lehman for installing our complicated water system; and Penny Cabot for her financial support of the water system.
And many thanks to Cary Peterson and Ray Clifford for the endless hours, being always on call for whatever our needs have been.
Dorothy Anderson and the Anderson family, and members of the Langley Community Garden
