| by Shawn Casey
Located way out east on Brookville Road, the International Home for Children houses around 150 Russian orphans that are here as exchange students.
They come to learn life and work skills administered by the Institute for Basic Life Principles.
Tim Gilley runs the bio-intensive garden project where he not only teaches basic principles of square foot gardening but also grows produce for the campus cafeteria. We caught up with Tim and his son as they were harvesting the seven variety salad mix that he plants every couple of weeks.
It's a large garden, almost 4/10ths of an acre, and it has been producing tomatoes, corn, melons, potatoes, carrots, salad, beets, and peppers for the campus all summer.
Tim estimates that they've harvested almost 1600 pounds of tomatoes! For a first year garden this is quite a feat but next year he'll have 200-250 kids to work with and feed. This shouldn't be a problem for Tim and his family, though. From the looks of the rich raised beds on what was only an empty field of grass a couple of years ago, Tim's doing it right!
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