Post Office Workers Turn Empty Lawn Into Garden for the Needy
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Terese Caldararo, Mike Caplan, and Bob Brown planted a garden at the main Post Office on the North Side, and donated all of the harvest to the local food pantry. Photo: Liz Reid/90.5 WESA
September 17, 2014
By Liz Reid
Mike Caplan and Terese Caldararo are walking through the rows of their garden, pointing out the different fruits, vegetables and herbs they planted this spring.
“We’ve got 25 tomato plants: Cherokee tomato, German Johnson’s, Rutgers. You name it we got it,” Caplan says. “And up front we’ve got peppers, bell peppers, and a lot of banana peppers."
“Different kinds of squash and zucchini: acorn squash, summer squash. We grew lettuce here. We had cilantro, we had parsley and rosemary,” Caldararo adds.
This isn’t in a backyard or even a community garden—it’s on patch of lawn at the U.S. Postal Service’s Processing and Distribution Center on Pittsburgh's North Side.