Volunteers from the Central Islip Community Garden have started a fundraiser to help maintain the 20 large garden beds that are harvested to provide food for their families as well as contributing to local food pantries. About as local as you can get, the garden is in its eleventh year this spring and the members of the unofficial club are putting a call out for the public’s help.
They created a gofundme page to support their efforts.
“Today many families are faced with food insecurity,” the site reads. “We can help to feed them from our harvest.”
Currently, the members are working the garden at their own financial expense and the costs to maintain a garden are many.
Beets grown at the Central Islip Community Garden. Photo: Central Islip Community Garden Facebook page.
“We sought financial support from the Town of Islip, as the garden is on their property, but none is forthcoming,” they wrote.
Last year, the members added the “Grow and Give” program to fight food insecurity within the Town of Islip, donating produce to local food pantries that had been grown there.
Click here to donate to the Central Islip Community Garden fundraiser.
