To the friends and supporters of Montgomery Victory Gardens -

While all our holidays center on food to one degree or another, none focuses on the meal quite so heavily, almost exclusively, as Thanksgiving. In keeping with this fine tradition, I would like to pass on MVG's greetings with a lesson I learned from my own food gardening this year.

Watching life burst from the ground and grow is indeed a miraculous experience. And I had some wonderful successes - the tastiest and most nutritious broccoli, green beans, lettuces and eggplants I have ever eaten, to name just a few. But I also had some failures, including a catastrophic one: my entire tomato crop being wiped out, in less than 72 hours, by late blight.

Reflecting on these and the similar experiences of other gardeners and farmers, I felt the profound realization that food is a very precious miracle... in part because it can be a very precarious one as well.

May we all be thankful for the precious miracle of food we feast on this coming Thanksgiving, and for the earth it came from and the people who grew it. And let's grow even more of our own in the coming year!

Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful, warm, happy Thanksgiving -
Gordon Clark, Project Director
Montgomery Victory Gardens