Reid Garrin says he has fun gardening at his local church because he gets to dig in the dirt, but the 12-year-old also knows the work is important.
“I’m gardening for the food bank this year,” says Reid, plowing dirt with a trowel. “I think it’s a good idea so people without food can eat.”
Every spring, Reid joins his friends and neighbours at a small community garden in the front yard of St. David’s Anglican Church in central Edmonton to grow fresh produce that eventually gets donated to food banks.
At the end of every season, Reid says he loves to see how “there’s always food afterwards.”…