A ribbon cutting will be held on Wednesday, May 22 at 4 pm to celebrate the opening of Victoria’s Garden, an education garden providing a “lot of compassion” for the community where seeds of unity and sustainability will be sown.
The garden’s location is 15 School Drive, right behind East Natchitoches Elementary School. This Educational Garden services the entire community and is within walking distance of three schools: East Natchitoches, Weaver, and Saint Mary’s.
A $20,000 grant was secured through Kids Gardening and Mr. Meyer’s Clean Day through the partnership of Natchitoches Parish 4-H, the Natchitoches Parish School Board, Lisa Wiggins and Victoria Wiggins. The mission to create a community garden was inspired through Victoria’s involvement with the State 4-H Food and Fitness board. The issue of food insecurity is real and food deserts are here in the Natchitoches community.
The nationwide grant supplied $20,000 to support local leaders looking to transform vacant lots into gardens to help grow compassion in their community. Victoria’s Garden was one of ten projects accepted nationwide.
Any member of the public is invited to help develop the garden to help eliminate food insecurity in the community. For more information on how to enter you may contact the 4-H office at 357-2224.
