Community Corner
Area Volunteers Help Westside JCC Plant Sustainable Urban Garden
Jewish Federation coordinates volunteer projects across the Westside, Los Angeles.
Instead of just the making the usual fundraising calls, this year's Centennial Super Sunday's volunteers spread out across the city to mark the Jewish Federation’s 100th year of serving the Los Angeles community.
Patch was at the Westside Jewish Community Center where the JCC and members of Ikar, the Jewish spiritual community that lives there, joined Federation volunteers to build an organic garden.
Children and teenage members of both organizations will tend the plots and share the organic produce with low-income seniors and others in need.
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Volunteers built the raised vegetable beds with help from Farmscape, who sold prefab kits to the center at cost.
Kids fashioned bird feeders from peanut butter, seeds and crackers and decorated rocks for the garden.
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In a couple of hours the beds were built, lined with rocks, filled with soils and compost and fitted out with a drip irrigation system.
All that remains is deciding what and when to plant.
Across Los Angeles, SOVA food pantry used volunteers to sort donated food; the Hillel Center at CSUN Northridge was given a facelift; at Project Chicken Soup, workers prepared and delivered meals to those in need.
