What started as a grey San Francisco morning turned out to
be a great day of abundance on the roof.
With a huge and much appreciated donation from Deloitte, the garden is now
equipped with bags of soil, plant food, new tools, and an umbrella to provide
that coveted spot of shade! And with the
invaluable help from our weekly volunteers at Graze the Roof, we collected a bag
of harvest to provide for the Glide kitchen downstairs.
Deep in the basement of the Glide Foundation building, the
kitchen was bustling with other hard-working volunteers in aprons, cutting
melon up in one room and unloading flour in another. Our bag of seasonal goods weighed in at 8.5
pounds full of freshly uprooted onions, baby leeks, radishes, and beets, and
bunches of oregano and thyme and was handed over to the cook in the lively
kitchen.
The cook took one look at the unloaded rainbow of
just-picked veggies, thanked us and over the loud radio playing music said, “I
love when you guys come down here.
Really, I look forward to this bag.”
Thursday’s volunteer day was a sheer example of the connectivity
and power of the people at Glide. From
the garden’s soil to the kitchen that feeds our community, the experience is
truly enriching.
Come join the love every Thursday on the roof! Volunteers are welcome to help play a part in
the garden from 10am-2pm.
