Barbara K. Brooks Transition Home
The Barbara K. Brooks Transition Home in Georgetown, Delaware, provides a safe, supportive home environment for women recovering from addiction. Six years ago, the Salt Air Gardeners formed a partnership with the Home to educate the women residents on how to create, plant, and tend to a vegetable garden.
The women in the house select the plants, the Salt Air Gardeners committee members purchase them and teach the women how to prepare the soil, weed, plant the vegetables, water, and tend the garden throughout the growing season.
The first year’s yield had some successes and some disappointments. However, now it is thriving and has given the residents a source of inspiration and independence.
Last year, learning from our gardening journey, we were much more successful - lots of tomatoes, peppers, squash, strawberries, and cucumbers were harvested for the women to enjoy. Additionally, a memorial garden was planted last summer, with a butterfly bush and crepe myrtle to honor women who lost their lives to addiction.
We are planning to provide a greater variety of vegetables and herbs this year, and are confident that the women, who have learned how to garden, will continue their gardening journey.
The women in the house select the plants, the Salt Air Gardeners committee members purchase them and teach the women how to prepare the soil, weed, plant the vegetables, water, and tend the garden throughout the growing season.
The first year’s yield had some successes and some disappointments. However, now it is thriving and has given the residents a source of inspiration and independence.
Last year, learning from our gardening journey, we were much more successful - lots of tomatoes, peppers, squash, strawberries, and cucumbers were harvested for the women to enjoy. Additionally, a memorial garden was planted last summer, with a butterfly bush and crepe myrtle to honor women who lost their lives to addiction.
We are planning to provide a greater variety of vegetables and herbs this year, and are confident that the women, who have learned how to garden, will continue their gardening journey.
