Fall colors are here, and with them an end to the excessive watering of our expansive green lawns. As I drove by my local Mormon ward building in Cottonwood Heights and saw all of the water flowing down the street from its watering, it occurred to me that there may be a better use for the many church lawns.

Wouldn't it be great if all that water were used for vegetable gardens to feed Utah's hungry? Certainly, our Utah Food Bank would rejoice in knowing that a fraction of the green lawn that surrounds churches of all faiths was converted to gardens for the poor and tended by the many worshippers or the food bank recipients.

St. James Episcopal Church on Union Park Avenue is doing a community garden. Let's see other churches with huge acreage of nothing more than lawn to mow convert some of that space and fill some hungry bellies!

William A. Woolston

Cottonwood Heights