The Leaves Are Falling!

As you rake and bag your leaves, bring them to the Community Garden, located behind the Student Life Center. Bags may be left in front of the garden shed.

Jim Huff Memorial Community Garden

The Jim Huff Memorial Community Garden is located across the street from the main church campus between the Student Life Center and the First Presbyterian Church of Sugar Land on property that we share.

The Community Garden was started as an Eagle Scout project in 1989, with a vision from Jim Huff, as a way to give fresh produce to the needy. Starting with one bed and help from Foncyne Mapes, the garden has grown to it's current 13 beds of fresh produce and fruit trees being planted and harvested on a weekly basis. Our garden is a branch of Urban Harvest Houston, which helps provide food for the needy. We are most grateful to the Sugar Creek Garden Club for providing annual monetary support for the garden.

Volunteers from our church and our community work year-round in the garden to provide fresh produce for the food pantry at East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry located in Stafford. Volunteers meet every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 7:00 a.m. behind the Student Life Center for various projects in the garden. Each year the garden produces thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to the food pantry at East Fort Bend Human Needs. In 2009, our garden provided 3008 pounds of fresh produce to needy families in Fort Bend County, and as of May 25, 2010, the total was 920 pounds.

We have volunteer opportunities available on various days and times. No green thumb is required, just a willingness to donate some of your time and the love of watching what God can do.

For more information about the Community Garden and how you can help, contact Tim Johnson at 281-494-5577 .

"Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food..." Genesis 1.29