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Community Gardening With Harcum College
Harcum brings the "100 Acts of Service" to a Radnor community garden.
On Saturday, October 24, 2015, ten gardeners from the Harcum community worked at weeding, hauling, and spreading woodchips and harvesting peanuts at Skunk Hollow Community Garden . For the last four years Skunk Hollow Community Garden, located in an area of Willows Park in Radnor Township known as Skunk Hollow, has collected their gardeners ‘excess’ vegetables, washed, weighed, and delivered them to the Loaves and Fishes food pantry in Prospect Park, Delaware County. For 2015, spanning dates of June 27 - September 12, SHCG provided a variety of fresh vegetables with a monetary value of $3,845.00 – a record high in 2015 - to
Loves and Fishes, which provides food for 650+ families who ‘qualify’ as living in poverty and living in 35 different communities in lower Delaware County. On a weekly basis each qualifying family receives 3 meals/day for eight days.
As the gardeners become more committed to this expression of caring for others, this outreach program has grown in volume and commitment. Harcum College is proud to be a part of that effort.
Gardeners from the Harcum community who volunteered that day were: Briget O’Leary, Ashley Herr-Perrin and daughter Scarlet Perrin, Steve& Kathy Kleponis, Steve Pipitone, Joe & Marcie Donahue, Jamie Singer, and Tim Ely.
