Sunrise Meadows Organic Gardening Association (S.M.O.R.G.AS)
By Kate Duff
Remember the childhood ditty, "This is the house that Jack built," this is the garden that SMORGAS built!
We started with an empty lot donated by the owners of Sunrise Meadows Mobile Home Park. It didn't look like much at first, in our minds we had a vision. The West Valley City Clean and Beautiful Committee donated a pallet of cinder blocks and a load of topsoil to get us going.
We've been "going" ever since. A few of the SMORGAS board members picked up the blocks and unloaded them. We used newspaper on the ground to kill the weeds, set the blocks in at four-foot by eight-foot beds and rented them out for a two year time period. We were then able to purchase more blocks and rent out more beds and purchase more blocks and rent out more beds and… you get the idea!