GIVING GARDEN

 Attention HOME Gardeners!

One hundred percent of our Giving Garden produce goes to The Open Door Food Pantry, a wonderful organization that provides healthy, fresh food to about 20,000 of our food insecure neighbors in Dakota County each month. Our little garden yields nearly a ton of produce per year. 

How can we double or even triple our impact? 
Through STB parishioners dropping off part of their home harvests. Please consider reserving part of your bounty for our neighbors in need at The Open Door. The Giving Garden Ministry will make it very easy for you to do so:

• All types of vegetables/fruits are welcome (as long as it is of a quality you would enjoy yourself).
• Knock the excess dirt off your produce (no need to wash), and bag/box them up however you like.
• Haul them over to the STB Giving Garden (in back of the building accessed by the walkway from the south parking lot) on Monday or Thursday mornings before 9:00 am.
  • Please pick your veggies as close to the drop-off time as feasible - obviously the fresher the better.
  • We will package (usually in clamshells) and label your produce, then drive it over to The Open Door along with that which we harvest from the Giving Garden that morning.
  • We work the garden starting at 8am. If you need to drop off your produce earlier, please just leave it at the gate where we will find it upon arrival. If it is something a bit unusual that we may not recognize, please label it.
  • So there is no need for you to package your veggies, nor to haul them all the way to TOD.  

Please DO NOT drop vegetables off in church, or at the Giving Garden any times other than Monday or Thursday mornings.  We simply do not have a mechanism to handle your donations at other times, and they likely will go to waste.

Thank You!