Sow we go: Organic

Corporate Giving story for The Commercial Appeal

May 22, 2009

Digger O’Dell Nursery and Landscape is working with the “Drake & Zeke in the Morning” radio show and 98.1 The Max to deposit fresh, local and organically grown produce into the Mid-South Food Bank.

The Field of Greens, as it is called, is an organic garden on a half-acre of land at the corner of Farm Road and Mullins Station in Shelby Farms.

“Shelby Farms donated the land to make a demonstration classroom teaching the importance of composting and organic gardening,” said Michael McPeak, who with partner William Kitchens bought the Digger O’Dell Nursery three years ago. “The area hasn’t been touched in 15 or 20 years, so the land will only get better and better.”

The garden is laid out like a baseball diamond with mulched walkways and smaller plots of tomato, corn, squash, melons, peppers and okra. There will be scheduled work days throughout the growing season, with volunteers and speakers on hand to teach the public about organic gardening … (read more)