Something to do on Saturday in SoCe...

Legacy Ministries annual Holiday Bazaar- handmade gifts by PotteryWorks and GardenWorks youth

Garden Box "Green House"

A refurbished window has now been repurposed into a greenhouse for our garden box. Of course, today it is 54 degrees and waaay too hot for the Swiss chard inside! 

Here is the side view. We hope the plastic is strong enough for the Kansas winds. 

Christmas Craft Market...Sat. Dec. 12!!

Here are a few of the goodies that will be available at the Legacy Garden Works Christmas Craft Market on Saturday from 10:00 to 2:00 at 945 S. Wichita Street. 

Handmade tote bags, granola and roasted coffee beans! 

One of the youth in action, attaching a strap to a tote bag (thank you for donating your ties!) 

Meanwhile, another youth is making a batch of cookies. 

Garden Works coffee roasters! 

Thankful for Garden Works Youth & Leaders

From Catherine…

This week I have had the joy of helping with Legacy Garden Works on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons. Garden Works employs local at-risk youth to work in the garden, sell produce, and learn other skills. This week, instead of gardening, we have been roasting coffee beans, making granola, and sewing tote bags. There are 4 youth working this season. Two are becoming experts in food-related skills (roasting coffee beans, baking granola, and creating lattes) while the other two youth have learned to make soap and are now sewing.

Each day of working at Garden Works has been an absolute joy! We start work at 4:00 pm, so we have all spent the day at school or at work, but we show up eager to tackle whatever project is at hand. The youth have great attitudes. They are punctual, positive, encouraging, patient, and eager to learn. Today they were each able to work independently at their task. It was impressive! I was supervising a youth who was sewing – she was doing such a great job and clearly did not need my help, so I did some pinning and hand-sewing. The barista-in-training brought me a specially-made latte to sample. Lucky me! Our only obstacle was that we ran out of silk neck ties – which we are using for straps on the tote bags. We are 20 ties short. If you have any neck ties you would like to contribute to the cause, we would be grateful to receive them (before Monday, December 7 at 4 pm when we resume our sewing).