A variation on the concept of Community Gardens is growing at the Chatham water works property and the Outreach for Hunger food banks is benefiting.
Founder Dean Hale says the Chatham Garden Workshare see participants contribute time to a large garden plot for a share of the crops instead of each have a smaller individual plot.
He says so far the participants are getting vegetables for themselves and they are donating the surplus.
"We've been doing weekly deliveries to Outreach for hunger since we got going," he says. "We just got this project going, our first plants went in August 21 so we've been focusing on the fall season and what we can grow over that time."
Hale says 15 people are currently involved in the workshare cooperative and he is hoping to expand it to other locations next year.
