Bonnie Bryant has a green thumb — most especially with beans, lots of them, pictured here!

When we spread the word among our patients at Tapestry Wilson that we were going to rent two plots at Grow Uptown, Peterson Garden Project‘s newest site in front of the old Stewart School, Bonnie Bryant jumped at the chance to garden.

She’s lived in Uptown for 50 years, and until this summer the only gardening she’s been able to do has been on her back porch.  Bonnie has a very green thumb, and she faithfully tended to our plots on Thursdays and Saturdays, with regular rain helping keep things growing in between.

Besides 9 different types of herbs, we grew cherry tomatoes, strawberries, lettuce, kale, carrots, radishes and cucumbers. The herbs and tomatoes did fine, some of the others were kind of iffy.  Bonnie will be getting her own plot next summer, thanks to scholarships through Peterson Garden Project, and Heartland plans to be out there again too, with a few other patients hopefully getting involved.