Green Thumb Garden Club aims to be bigger than ever this year, with both a rise in membership and restructuring, which included a new meeting location.
Collegedale resident and new Club President Rita Vital, along wth Pat Ratliff and Mary Swain, will host the inaugural meeting in the new space at Morning Pointe of Collegedale Monday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the building’s activity room. There, featured speaker Seth Shaffer, a Southern Adventist University professor of agriculture, will focus on organic farming.
In particular, Thatcher Farm, which supplies produce to popular restaurants such as Farmer’s Daughter, Root Kitchen and Wine Bar, Easy Bistro and Bar, as well as to the SAU Food Pantry and The Chattanooga Area Food Bank, is a prime example of the practical side to sustainable agriculture.
“Our goals are beautification, education and also bonding together as a community, Vital explained.
For Vital, it is about imparting her love of gardening to others, just as she came to enjoy it early in life while growing up in New York.