Meet the Winners of the Fabulous Food Garden Contest

This past month we watched as food gardens from around the world shared their beautiful garden photos and food gardening stories with the community on YourGardenShow. Participants competed in the Fabulous Food Garden contest for a chance for a chance to win some fabulous prizes, including a People's Choice award of $500 and an Editor's Choice award of $500 and a feature in Mother Earth News magazine.

Two gardens came out ahead and one surprise runner-up has been announced. Read their stories below.

Editor's Choice Winner - Belinda's Secret Garden

My grandparents were wonderful gardeners and I enjoyed helping them (or at least they said I was helpful). It is something Manley and I like to do together as a couple.  I especially love starting something from seed straight through canning. Manley likes the flowers and enjoys building the gardens. We are both economically conservative (or cheap) so if we can grow something inexpensively and organically we are happy.

Read the full story here
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Editor's Choice Runners-Up - KCMS Victory Garden

This is the only vegetable-producing public school garden on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is maintained by middle school students and serves the needs of low income children and families in the community. Established at Kent County Middle School in 2010 thanks to a Toolbox for Education grant from Lowe's and lots of community support, the garden helps young people learn about where their food comes from and how to make healthy food choices. KCMS is the ONLY Middle School in the county; there are about 450 students. During the school year, students tend the garden and produce is eaten at school or sent home.

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People's Choice Winner - Love Community Garden

Abject poverty, casual neglect, apathy and institutionalized resistance. That’s what faced four people, a mail lady, Jody, a retired gentleman,Bob, a strong-willed woman, Morning, and myself a retired architect turned visual artist, who all decided to find a way to change the very atmosphere of depression in one corner of Muskegon, Michigan.

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