The Education Services Giveback team had another successful Giveback event at Mill City Grows in Lowell. We participated in this activity to support the Mill City Grows mission of fostering food justice by improving physical health, economic independence and environmental sustainability in Lowell through increased access to land, locally-grown food and education. We participated in the event because we want to support our community in providing locally grown, healthy food to those in need, while spending time together as a team for a great cause.
We learned that farming isn’t gardening and is a lot of hard work and sometimes takes a while to see the payoff, such as the 2 years it takes for the asparagus we planted. The organization we volunteered for grows 80,000 pounds of vegetables in a season to help the local community, which is no easy task and volunteers are essential to its success. We were joined by another Kronos group of interns and a group from the Jean D’Arc Credit Union from Lowell and our combined efforts were impressive. We built mounds of dirt with trenches, laid irrigation and planted an area of asparagus in an afternoon that would have taken a month for the few people that work at Mill City Grows. There was also a lot of weeding also done across the farm that is essential to helping the crops grow strong. By representing Kronos at The Mill City Grows farm and sharing the experience on the giveback site, we will help to more bring visibility to this great cause so more Kronos teams get involved. The team included Alicia Alcaino, Lyn Bennett, Jane Bomengen, Alexandra Cote, Eileen Cushing-Craig, Jean Kilian, Colene MurphyLessard and Roger Tremblay.
