COTTAGE GROVE — Eager to get your garden going? A visit to a local garden center from Friday to Sunday, May 2 to 4, could give you that chance — and the opportunity to help local people in need.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is asking those visiting America’s Best Flowers Garden Center in rural Cottage Grove this weekend to purchase and donate vegetable-transplant four-packs destined to become fresh produce on the tables of Dane County families in need.
Each $1.99 four-pack a customer contributes at America’s Best Flowers, 4311 Vilas Hope Rd., will be planted in a food pantry garden in Fitchburg. The harvest from that garden will be given to neighbors in need through the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Madison.St. Vincent de Paul volunteers will staff a booth at America’s Best Flowers to inform customers about the effort. With each four-pack purchased for donation, America’s Best Flowers will also contribute 50 cents to St. Vincent de Paul for the society’s food pantry garden.