Girl Scouts garden for a good cause

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Neighbors | Submitted.Troop 673 members Gabby Eberly, left, Rachel Sinclair, Rachel Rosteck, Kayla Troxil and Ella Polen show off their dirty work at Clare Bridge of Austintown. .The troop helped plant the "Forget Me Not" garden and will continue to tend to the garden throughout the summer.

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Neighbors | Submitted.Members of Troop 673 of Canfield helped build the "Forget Me Not" garden at Clare Bridge in Austintown. .Bill Farragher spearheaded the garden and helped the girls plant the flowers.

Girl Scout troop 673 of Canfield has volunteered to help build and tend the “Forget Me Not” garden at Clare Bridge of Austintown.

Early in May, Clare Bridge staff and volunteers began to build five raised garden beds for growing flowers and vegetables. When the five beds were ready for filling with soil, Troop 673 members helped wheelbarrow and shovel the soil into the new beds.

Throughout the summer, the troop will tend to the garden by weeding and watering the beds.

The combined five raised bed project was named the “Forget Me Not” garden, a title for a garden within a professional dementia care facility.

The “Forget Me Not” garden contains many kinds of annual flowers, herbs, tomatoes, peppers, corn, sweet potatoes, plus two dwarf fruit trees. Clare Bridge residents will have the vegetables incorporated into their diet this summer and fall.