Community comes together to grow local food

                                          

ERIE, PA - Several community members of the East Side Bayfront neighborhood came together to plant blueberry bushes on a chilly Saturday morning.  The project was coordinated by the group called “BluebErie” a partnership between the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul and the Bayfront East Side Taskforce with support from individuals and Erie Insurance.

                                         

The Eastside Bayfront neighborhood is diverse and considered to be a food desert in that a significant portion of its households have low incomes and no access to a vehicle in order to get to a grocery store that is over a mile away.  The immediate food options in the neighborhood are slim and not often healthy.  BluebErie’s goal is to bring the community together to grow, care for, harvest and share blueberries.  In order for the neighborhood to have access to healthier and fresher foods, to create community and to learn valuable gardening skills.  BluebErie will follow up with once a month gardening education for the community members who have volunteered to care for the blueberry bushes.

You can help BluebErie plant more blueberry bushes next year by sending donations to:

The Cathedral of St. Paul

134 West 7th Street

 Erie, PA 16501

Make checks payable to Cathedral of St. Paul with bluebERIE on the memo line.