Sharon Vest sees needs of all sorts from the people who come to her store.

The owner of Apple Seed Thrift, Vest has seen one need spike in recent months.

Food. “We’ve had a lot of people who come into our store who need help,” Vest told the Kingfisher Lions Club at a recent meeting.

“And (food) is a huge need I’ve noticed with food prices going up.”

Vest then said “God put it on me” to pursue the possibility of a community garden in Kingfisher.

“I think it would be a nice thing for the community,” she said.

Vest added that she’s already got someone willing to donate heirloom seed.

“I’m just trying to secure a place,” she said.

The space wouldn’t need to be a large one, she added.

“A garden the size of this room would make a lot of food,” she said of the meeting room at Farm Bureau Insurance.

A community garden can be more than a place for families to retrieve food.

“A lot of people don’t know how to grow things anymore,” she said. “We could use the garden to teach them.”

A usable space would need to have running water, she said.

And volunteers would be needed as well.

“I work six days a week at the store, so we would need some help,” she said. “People to water, pulls weeds, just whatever.”

Most importantly, Vest said, she just wants to help people.

“The harder times get, the more people are going to need it,” she said. “We want people to be able to come pick what they want.”

Apple Seed Thrift is a non-profit store that helps fund the Apples for Africa ministry. It’s located at 1500 S. Main St. in King- fisher.