The MapleFood Garden harvest has reached 200 lbs.

That's good news for the local families who depend on the food pantry at Our Lady of Sorrows.

The MapleFood Garden, planted this spring for the third year and run by the Maplewood Garden Club, has the mission of “food grown for the community by the community.” This season the local food pantry at Our Lady Of Sorrows, and participants in the HUB program, have enjoyed 200 lbs. of multiple varieties of lettuce, radishes, kale, Swiss chard, collard greens, spinach, carrots, beets, scallions, cabbage, tomatoes, herbs, beans and snap peas.

"All nutured and harvested with the help of the Maplewood Garden Club Youth Gardeners and their families, HUB program middle school student participants, and Garden Club volunteers," reports Kathy Kohlman of the Garden Club.

The gardeners will be planting late season crops in the next week, with harvesting and donations continuing into the fall. When the Municipal Green House (behind Maplewood Town Hall) opens in October, the MGC Youth Gardening winter program will commence with a focus on next year’s crops.

For more information about the MapleFood Garden or the MGC Youth Gardening Program visit maplewoodgardenclub.org.