The weather has been a bit inclement, but Health Center residents of The Mayflower Community have been able to do flower planting in the raised garden located in the protected courtyard space. May plantings bring May flowers! — Tracy Woolfolk, Community Life and Wellness Coordinator
Located on the sidewalk in front of the wild grass garden of Mayflower Community residents Lois and Gayle Strickler, Jr. is a park bench made out of “milk jugs.” After Gayle and Lois moved to Grinnell from Marshalltown, they groomed the garden and then added the unique bench that is pictured. Manufactured by Plastic Recycling…
The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA) has available to its residents, a sizable garden patch on the north side of 2nd Avenue, between Broad and Park streets. Every spring Mayflower tills the ground, which has a water spigot in the garden. Residents take it from there. This year as in prior years, resident Katherine McClelland is…