Volunteers In Turtle Creek Turn Overgrown Baseball Field Into Community Garden
Home Plate Garden now grows zucchini, tomatoes, cantaloupe, sunflowers and more.
By Kym Gable
Pittsburg CBS
September 17, 2020
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TURTLE CREEK, Pa. (KDKA) — Seeds of change are producing a harvest of community pride next to the Hamilton Park playground in Turtle Creek.
Five years ago, a group of volunteers, including members of the Turtle Creek Development Corporation, started transforming an overgrown baseball field into a community garden. Home Plate Garden now grows zucchini, tomatoes, cantaloupe, sunflowers and more.
A grant from Grow Pittsburgh financed the first two years, but now the garden is sustained by donations and volunteers. Sales from the farm stand held on Tuesdays and Thursdays also helps.
Eileen Pickle gave KDKA’s Kym Gable a tour.
“If you don’t have money, that’s OK,” said Pickle. “It’s whatever you want to take. We have really had some really nice, generous people and that makes up for the people who can’t pay.”
Volunteer Dale Bizub calls it a “labor of love.”
“We don’t have any local grocery stores,” said Bizub. “No fresh produce, and you can’t get any fresher than this.”
Beth Hamill says kids in the neighborhood are especially curious about the garden.
