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Back row, standing,
from left: Judith L.
Desilets of Credit
Union ONE; JCC
ssistant Executive
'rector Leslee
Magidson; Camp
Discovery Director
Judy Front; Oak
Park JCC Aquatics
Director Jake
Segall and Camp
Discovery Assistant
Director Jaymie
Morton. along with
counselors and
campers at the
JCC Community
Gardens.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Elizabeth Applebaum
Special to the Jewish News

M

ontague Russell Page (1906-
1985) was gardener to the
stars, a man whose clients
included Oscar de la Renta and CBS
founder William S. Paley.
Page knew that the best gardener
was not the person whose shed was
stocked with expensive tools and fancy
seed packets, but one whose nature was
kind, generous and open.
"Green fingers',' he said, "are the exten-
sion of a verdant heart"
A charming garden, created by a
group of children with great heart,
is growing at the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit in Oak
Park. Everything it produces will be
donated to Yad Ezra, the kosher food
pantry in Berkley.

The garden was the brainchild of JCC
Camp Discovery Director Judy Front
and was funded by Credit Union ONE
of Michigan.
"Giving back and being a good com-
munity partner is important to us, and
we knew immediately that we wanted
to be a part of this," said Judith L.
Desilets, director of public relations.
Located beside the JCC's playground,
the garden is contained in a large raised
bed and was planted by boys and girls
who attended the Oak Park JCC's Camp
Discovery day camp this summer.
Campers planted tomato seedlings
and radish and bean seeds, then used
markers to decorate the outside of the
raised beds. Visitors today can still see
a fun collection of drawings, names and
handprints. They also helped water the
plants and made certain they got plenty
of TLC.

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As the children worked, Front asked,
"Who knows where the food will go
when we harvest this garden?"
"I do!" one 6-year-old called out. "To
the people who can't afford to buy food."
Although cool autumn winds are
already dancing throughout the area,
the JCC Community Gardens' produce
is doing fine, with radishes being har-
vested by the basket and tiny tomatoes
popping out between leaves.
Front plans to use the garden as part
of Camp Discovery programming each
summer. "Getting the children out-
doors, in the dirt and growing things,
then caring for and harvesting, is a
wonderful lesson for all children:' she
said.

Elizabeth Applebaum is a marketing

specialist with the Jewish Community

Center of Metropolitan Detroit.

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