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Pensacola native and freelance journalist Sierra Lyons produced an audio and digital story about From the Ground Up Community Garden during her five-day training with NPR. ....
It s already tomato season at From the Ground Up Community Garden in downtown Pensacola, but many of the garden beds are still lacking trellises needed for the plants. The community garden was already having a difficult year after losing funding because of the coronavirus pandemic when hurricanes Sally and Zeta damaged many of the existing trellises and killed many plants. Now, lead gardener Elizabeth Eubanks and volunteers are working to help the garden recover despite its limited resources, all the while harvesting winter crops and planting summer ones to help feed others. With the two hurricanes, we lost plants. We lost trellising. And so we re still in great need. It looks a little bit more rundown than I would have it, Eubanks said. We still need to get all of that done because it s tomato season now and I need to get these things up, and there s just limits of time due to budget and salary and supplies. ....