Fruitful Offerings

Buckets are clean and ready for veggie plants. Thank you Orleans Packing for these reclaimed olive buckets. Hundreds of pounds of vegetables can be grown on the plants the buckets will hold. Next stop for the buckets is the Endicott Communtiy Greenhouse for planting. https://orleanspacking.com https://orleanspacking.com/

A thank you to Dedham Savings for supporting the Fruitful Offerings program that gave away 556 plants this year! Also a huge shout out to the Endicott Community Greenhouse and its volunteers who grow the hearty and lush plants we gave to Dedham Food Pantry clients this year.

Thank you to also to E.O.M.S. Recycling, Inc. and all our volunteers Maggie and Charlene who grow fresh produce at the Fruitful Offering Gardens for the Dedham Food Pantry. I also need to thank my amazing husband, Mason Miranda and son Cole for the time and love they give to this program each year.

The 556 plants have the potential to grow thousands of pounds of produce and many opportunities to pass along vegetable plant growing skills.

The Fruitful Offerings program gives away vegetable plants in self-contained, reclaimed buckets along with fertilizer and instructions in five languages. We also give away vegetable plants for gardens and have free garden plots in the Fruitful Offerings Gardens, where Dedham Food Pantry clients can grow their own produce. Some of the garden plots are used to grow fresh produce that is donated to the Dedham Food Pantry.

It takes a village and I am so thankful to be a part of this generous village, Dedham.