Stay-at-home order gives some Granite Staters a green thumb
By MEGHAN PIERCE
Granite State News Collaborative
Kelly Morbey of Goffstown shops at House by the Side of the Road in Wilton Tuesday. Meghan Pierce
Meghann Wuorinen of Peterborough wasn’t intending to start a garden this spring, then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted the state’s stay-at-home order, soon after she was furloughed from her job.
She found herself at home with her husband and 10-year-old daughter. The project she had wanted to start for years quickly bloomed into a family project and distraction from the pandemic.
“I’ve always sort of had the idea to start a garden. It wasn’t as though the COVID crisis made me do it or anything, but it was always on my perpetual to-do list,” Wuorinen said. “The circumstances aligned so that we can actually do this now. Being at home having that time.”
Her husband took on the duty of protecting the coming garden from wildlife living in the woods abutting their backyard and built a fence. And she and her daughter used the math needed to build the raised beds as a remote learning opportunity.
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