Vegetable Garden | Vegetable Garden At The Hanover Senior Center
The vegetable garden at the Hanover Senior Center is more than just a thing of beauty.
According to Council on Aging Director Robyn Mitton, the garden is a source of pride for the seniors who visit the center, as well as a source of fresh produce.
“The vegetables sell out pretty quickly every day,” Mitton said, motioning to the small farm stand set up in the lobby at the center. “They’re very popular.”
The garden provides the center with a bounty of vegetables including lettuce, poll beans, push beans, summer squash, cucumbers, a variety of tomatoes and 14 different kinds of spices.
“And hot, hot, hot peppers,” Mitton said.
She said the garden is lovingly maintained by Martha Kristian, a part-time COA employee, and volunteers Luke Lukoski, Joe McLaughlin and his wife, Mary.
“These guys are very knowledgeable about vegetables,” Kristian said of Lukoski and McLaughlin.
Kristian said the garden was established in the spring of this year and has been extremely successful and fruitful.
“It’s great to come out here and work on it,” she said. “The seniors like to visit and see how things are coming along.”
The raised vegetable beds make it easier for the seniors to reach, and a wire and wood fence surrounds the garden.
Mitton credits volunteers Al Mickunas and Dick Farwell for building the raised vegetable beds and the fence and gate.
“It really is a community effort,” she said.
Kristian said the beds were built over the winter and filled with loam from the DPW.
“Luke, Mary and Joe provided all the plants and grew everything from seed,” she said.
Lukoski said he enjoys gardening and that he became interested in growing vegetables during World War II.
“Everyone had a Victory Garden then,” he said.
McLaughlin said he also got his start in gardening as a
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