MLK+Day+of+Service+2018

This past Martin Luther King Day, I was blessed with the opportunity to serve my community. I partook in the MLK Day of Service at Good Hope Farm. Good Hope Farm is quite special because it is land which was given to by the Town of Cary. Good Hope Farm grows crops for local farmers and for the homeless in the area. This MLK Day, they were hosting a food drive for a local nonprofit called Dorcas Ministries as well. During my two hours of volunteering, I was tasked with shoveling mulch from large piles into wheelbarrows, which were taken to the area where the mulch needed to be spread around. Afterwards, I enjoyed a banana and some lemonade with some fellow volunteers after the work was done.

This event pertains to the material which we have been learning in class because it highlights the importance of the usage of compost. Compost is very useful in the way that it can decompose and provide essential nutrients to the plants and it can be produced by people who have proper waste. This event was not only relevant to our classroom curriculum and learning but also as a person of Cary as well. As a community member, it is important that you are able to give back to your community. In this case, I was able to help better the social well-being of my community by helping aid a process to provide much-needed nutrition to the less fortunate.