Wayne D's Blog

The picture at the top of this post shows the fence I erected yesterday for the community garden at my church. I was dropping my son off for the kids cooking club that one of the members has started when I saw the garden manager and stopped to chat with her. She told me about the terrible theft problems they were encountering. People would come to harvest their vegetables and find that someone had cleaned them out. This filled me with righteous indignation and I was determined to do something. It was off to Home Depot for a couple of rolls of plastic fencing. To save money I didn't buy fence posts which were terribly expensive as compared to the cost of the fencing, instead we used some tomato stakes that we scrounged from the garden.

We are also considering adding a video camera to monitor the parking lot and the garden access. If you are woman in the red jeep who thinks that a community garden means free vegetables we are watching for you. Stealing from our garden in different than stealing from the supermarket. If you are the other thieves who think that stealing vegetables other people have nurtured all summer or from the plots that we use for vegetables for the underprivileged members of our community you should be ashamed of yourselves.