Posts Tagged ‘Avon Township Community Foundation’

Food Pantry Production Farm Doubles In Size

The Avon Township Community Foundation in conjunction with Avon Township has doubled the size of this years ‘production farm’. Sam Yingling, Township Supervisor, stated that “The Township is working in conjunction with the Avon Township Community Foundation on this year’s community garden and food pantry production farm. The production farm has been doubled in size this year [...]

Did Someone Piss Off Mother Nature?

Even though we’ve lived in Illinois for many years and are aware of the sudden changes in our weather, we were a bit surprised to hear on the evening news that there might be up to THREE INCHES of fresh snow on the ground when we woke up. Sure enough, it snowed! Maybe not a [...]

Avon Community Garden Harvest Begins

What a difference a month makes when it comes to garden crops. I hadn’t been by the Avon Community Garden and Food Pantry Production Farm for a month but was in the area today and snapped a few photos. As you can see, if you compare it to the July 2oth post, the garden is [...]

Food Pantry Garden Gets Surveillance Cameras

I had asked before the Avon Township Community Garden was planted if they were going to be adding a closed circuit surveillance system and wasn’t surprised when I stopped by a few days ago to see one installed. I had never seen one of the downspout rain water collection barrels and was quite impressed by [...]

Food Pantry Production Farm Finally Gets Tilled

With a short break in the rainy weather, Landscape Concepts was finally able to get their equipment on site and till the Community Garden and Food Pantry Production Farm located behind the Avon Township Center. It appears as though the process that was used to stunt the sod and turn it into nothing more than [...]

Food Pantry Garden Starting To Take Shape

At Monday night’s Avon Township meeting, Township Supervisor Sam Yingling put on a power point presentation describing in greater detail the planned Community Garden and Food Pantry Production Farm as it is now being called. It will be headed up by Wendy Warden, President of The Avon Township Community Foundation. The food pantry will be [...]

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