Community Gardens at Franklin Centre
The community garden at Franklin Centre is a labour of love. It was designed, built and now facilitated by CLC staff for our community families and group homes. Jonathan and Joanne built the garden itself and the residential folks planted it over the course of the last two months. It went from a random patch of grass to a beautiful, peaceful place to come and enjoy.
The vegetable garden has been planted with corn, two types of squash, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelon and peppers. There is also an herb and sensory garden. In this garden you are able to engage all five of your senses with the garden. There is therapeutic moss to walk on in bare feet, there are herbs to touch and to eat. There are flowers, sunflowers, wind chimes, a bug and butterfly house, hummingbird feeders, and everyone’s favourite, a “sensitive plant’ which you’ll have to come and see for yourself why it gets its’ name.
