{"id":4051,"date":"2018-12-05T09:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2020-07-14T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:00:59","slug":"making-transys-gardens-grow-even-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2018\/12\/making-transys-gardens-grow-even-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Transy&#8217;s gardens grow, even in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/garden-1-810x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-810x500.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-350x216.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-730x450.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-2048x1264.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-936x578.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-524x324.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-466x288.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-348x214.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/garden-1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really like what the earth looks like in the winter,\u201d Margaux Crider begins, \u201cbecause everything is so subtle. You can\u2019t always see what\u2019s happening.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crider, Transy\u2019s AmeriCorps VISTA for sustainability, is known for waxing poetic about the earth. (Read her ode to dirt in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transyrambler.com\/gardening-column-on-the-dirt\/\">The Rambler<\/a>.) She cultivates ideas and relationships in the winter and bounty and community through the spring, summer and fall.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the rest of us scurry through a frozen December, focused on the shortest path to shelter, Crider is spreading compost and winter rye over the prickly landscape, conscious of the living, regenerating world beneath our feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo many things are happening below the ground,\u201d she reminds us, contradicting the stark, desolate-looking London Ferrill Community Garden, where Transy students volunteer alongside neighborhood gardeners and other partner organizations from spring through fall.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRoots are still growing, energy is being stored,\u201d she says. \u201cAll of the compost is going back into the soil and replenishing the nutrients. The garden is dormant, yes, but it\u2019s still working and preparing. We just can\u2019t see it. And we can\u2019t really do much with it, because you just have to let it do its own thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The land she helps to manage is owned by Christ Church Cathedral and includes a cottage and cemetery on East Third Street in Lexington. The community garden, named in honor of a former slave and remarkable preacher, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Ferrill\">The Rev. London Ferrill<\/a>, is a collaboration between Christ Church Cathedral, Seedleaf (a nonprofit that has a network of community gardens), the Martin Luther King Neighborhood Association and Transylvania, with the help of AmeriCorps in providing a VISTA service worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born into slavery in Virginia, Ferrill came to Lexington in 1811 after his wife purchased his freedom. He ministered to the First African Baptist Church, growing the congregation into the largest of any denomination in Kentucky at the time. He is buried there in the Old Episcopal Burying Ground, the only person of color. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crider\u2019s mission is to make everyone feel welcome in the London Ferrill garden and to inspire people everywhere to garden. She has helped establish community gardens at a nursing home and elementary school and is in talks this winter to begin gardens at a local mosque and Hindu temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-608x810.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4054\" width=\"335\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-608x810.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-263x350.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-548x730.jpeg 548w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/Members-of-Transy\u2019s-Delta-Sigma-Phi-volunteer-in-the-London-Ferrill-Community-Garden-1-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><figcaption>Members of Transy\u2019s Delta Sigma Phi volunteer in the London Ferrill Community Garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At Ferrill Garden, just down the road from Transy, visitors experience their first whiff of basil. The garden is a \u201cfood oasis,\u201d Crider explains, that provides the neighborhood with easy access to fresh produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On campus, one of Crider\u2019s winter projects is to make a moveable garden\u2014a garden on a wagon\u2014that she can pull around campus, from the Brown Science Center to the dorms. \u201cI want people to think about urban gardening and to ask where our food comes from and where we can grow food.\u201d The answer, she insists, is \u201ceverywhere.\u201d We may have a limited amount of arable land on earth, Crider says, \u201cbut if we can just build on top of that, we can have arable land anywhere we want.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She sees gardening as a realistic solution to significant problems in human and environmental health\u2014opportunities to be active, connecting with other living things, growing and eating good food, and avoiding \u201cthe consequences of industrial agriculture.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone can garden, she adds. \u201cThere\u2019s something for all ages and abilities. I feel that everyone needs to have a garden\u2014as it was one and two generations ago. That would solve a lot of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, community gardening is about building bonds with each other. \u201cA garden isn\u2019t just a place where you grow food,\u201d Crider explains, \u201cit\u2019s a place where people gather and work together, and learn new things.\u201d Being outside, getting dirty, connecting with nature and not looking at digital screens are all part of the benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked to name the star of the winter garden, Crider smiles. \u201cI love the fig tree in the Ferrill Garden,\u201d she says. \u201cI wrapped it up in mulch and hay and leaves to keep it warm. It looks kind of funny right now all bundled up. 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