Going Green
- kristystevenson
- Jul 6, 2009
- 1 min read
Organic community gardening is good for the soul, the environment, & you!
Marianne Lewis has always been a gardener at heart. As co-owner of Chef Warren's in Southern Pines, she provides eighty percent of the vegetables and herbs used at the restaurant during the spring and summer months from her own urban farm and community garden. Growing up, she worked in the family patch with her dad. "I've never lived any place where I didn't have something growing — even in an apartment — whatever space I had available," Lewis says.
It's no wonder, then, that she is involved in the Town of Southern Pines' Community Garden. Similar to allotments in England, community gardens are comprised of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs or flowering plants — anything grown organically. The town offers a fenced-in space with 4-foot by 12-foot raised beds filled with compost and organic fertilizer. Each bed is irrigated, and no chemicals or pesticides are used. Gardeners pay a low annual fee for the rights to their plot of land and agree to keep it productive all season.
—Pinehurst Magazine | Jul/Aug 2009
