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Big harvest weekend – nearly 500 pounds!

August 13, 2023 August 13, 20232023, Garden of Mercy

A big thank you to our garden crew yesterday – Frank Ferrandina, Larry Falcone, Bob Schneider, Justin Kaniper, Tim Smith, Dylan VanAllen, Sean McDonnell – for an outstanding and record setting harvest. Combined with several generous donations from parishioners we collected 472 pounds of fresh veggies. Some highlights included…

Let’s make every pepper count!

July 31, 2023 July 31, 20232023, Garden of Mercy 0

This week’s Garden of Mercy harvest yielded just over 218 pounds! That brings our total donations up to 854.3 pounds that has been donated to local food pantries. We’d like to give a big shoutout to our parishioners who’ve contributed to that total by donating produce from their own gardens.…

Grow baby grow

July 16, 2023 July 16, 20232023, Garden of Mercy

It seems that last week’s efforts of weeding, composting and laying of newspaper has paid off early. We logged a total of 114.5 pounds of fresh veggies this week!

See our totals for this week

July 5, 2023 July 5, 20232023, Garden of Mercy

Just a quick update – we were able to donate just over 100 pounds of fresh veggies this week. That brings our total up to 147.4 pounds! Our weekly donations benefit the local food banks. This season we are working to help New Bethany Ministries, Cay Galgon Life House, The…

We have our first donation of the season!

June 26, 2023 June 26, 20232023, Garden of Mercy

A quick update on the Garden of Mercy. We are off to a great start and today we made our first donation – 43.5 lbs. of food to help area food banks. Thanks to everyone who has helped us get to this point. Here is a photo of the garden…

It’s a dirty job, but we’re doing it

May 16, 2023 May 16, 20232023, Garden of Mercy

We were busy working on the garden this past weekend (5/14/23) taking care of some foundational work. The primary task of the day was laying bricks to make a cross in the center the garden. This Cross has previously been made with mulch, the bricks will improve the look and…

Ready. Set. Go! Prepping for the 2023 season!

April 13, 2023 May 16, 20232023, Garden of Mercy

Last year was a great growing season for our Garden of Mercy. Thank you to all who provided labor and donated produce from their own gardens. According to Plant A Row LV, we finished off the season with 2186.06 pounds of healthy nourishing and needed fresh grown goodness! You can…

Church Bell Memorial

March 27, 2023 December 11, 2023Church Bell Memorial, Projects 7

Church Bell Memorial – We want to hear from you! The St. Ann’s Knights of Columbus are working hard to create the Church Bell Memorial, but before any work gets started, we would like to hear from members of our community. Please read on to see how you can help…

See our feature in Plant A ROW LV!!

August 15, 2021 April 13, 20232021, Garden of Mercy

We were recently spotlighted in the Plant A Row Newsletter !!!! The following is excerpted from an August 2021 Plant A Row LV newsletter which published a feature on our newly relocated Garden of Mercy. How cool is that? This week’s Garden Spot Light is on St. Ann’s Knights of…

Check Out The New Site Dedication

July 10, 2021 April 13, 20232021, Garden of Mercy

After 5 years of renting community garden space in Lower Macungie to grow fresh produce for the needy of our community, the Garden of Mercy has been relocated to St. Ann’s church grounds! With our new 56 foot by 52 foot plot, we will be able to grow a ton…

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