Sheldrake Nature Center, established in the 80’s, houses community gardens. Residents planted, maintained and harvested the produce for the community meals in the area and the LM Food Pantry. The gardens fell into disuse about 10 years ago.
Fuller Center President and LM Lions VP Jim Killoran and Lion Board member Carolyn Gallaher have taken the lead to re-establish the community garden, which will provide fresh vegetables for the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force, among other recipients.
Carolyn is working with Jocelyn Kleinman, Educational Director of the Sheldrake Environmental Center to coordinate the project. Jim and Fuller Center volunteers are handling the physical aspects of the restoration, including putting in 8 new fences and gates and repairing the potting shed door.
Funding was provided by Sheldrake, the LM Lions Club and Larchmont Woman’s Club. Victory Farms will provide seedlings and other plants at a discounted price.
As the gardens are returned to productivity, the intent is to involve the community in the maintaining of the gardens.
The first phase of the project is completed, with seedlings donated by Victory Farms and others to be planted in anticipation of a harvest this fall.
The Fuller Center for Housing is an organization of thousands of volunteers who seek to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness throughout Westchester County, and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and public action. To learn more about the Fuller Center, visit: https://www.fullercenterny.org/
The Larchmont Mamaroneck Lions support existing non-profit and community service groups by bringing leaders together to determine needs, solutions and resources. They are part of Lions Clubs International, the world’s largest service organization of about 1.5 million members. Its five core causes are eye-health, hunger, the environment, diabetes and childhood cancer; and they are signatories of the United Nations resolutions on women’s and refugee rights.
