POTSDAM -- Peak Moment TV, aired on WCKN-TV, Monday, April 20 and Tuesday, April 21 during Earth Week, host Janaia Donaldson looks at how a Seattle community farm grows vegetables for the neighborhood with farm coordinator Scott Behmer.

Behmer says, “The veggies all go to people who have a hard time affording fresh vegetables. Last week we harvested 400 pounds of vegetables [for the Rainier Valley Food bank]…. It will last them about two hours. That’s the demand.”

He conducts a tour of a derelict lot transformed into a small urban farm. In an area with widely diverse demographics, work trade volunteers help in the garden and take vegetables home with them. The children’s garden has “See, Touch, Taste, and Mint” beds with plants highlighting these themes.

In the “Verma Composting” bin, kids get to be up front and personal with bugs and worms! Scott’s advice for others: Be flexible. Adapt the garden to peoples’ food preferences and time schedules. Seattle Community Farm is a project of Solid Ground, Seattle.

The new April shows conclude with part 1 of Earth Repair – Homegrown Healing of Toxic Lands on April 27-28.

Programs are available on at www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/.

More than 80 Peak Moment TV shows are available on DVDs at the Potsdam Public Library from the collection of shows purchased for broadcast locally.