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Memphis, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: To help more South Memphis families access fresh food, Knowledge Quest made upgrades the hydroponic system at its Green Leaf Learning Farm, installing fifty new grow towners onsite. The infrastructure improvements allow the three-acre urban farm to produce more vegetables, which Knowledge Quest makes available to local lower-income families. Project organizers say the farm's increased capacity also allows them to offer more farming and nutrition education programming, which helps community members become more self-reliant. Today the farm is an agritourism destination, hosting school field trips related to beekeeping, vegetable growing, aquaponics, green building and more.
Albany, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The Underground Railroad Education Center constructed an accessible, indoor garden in the Arbor Hill neighborhood, whose residents lack access to fresh produce and gardening space. Designed for year-round use, the new hoop house represents an intergenerational collaboration between younger and older adults. Local teenagers created and installed planters and now help grow food there. Albany businesses and volunteers also contributed to the project by building benches for the site. Today, the Center grows produce, such as lettuce, in the greenhouse, which it donates to people in the community.
Barceloneta, PR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will expand a community garden in the Punta Palma neighborhood and improve the space's accessibility, making it more welcoming for older adult gardeners.
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Laramie, WY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The project will convert a donated bus into an accessible greenhouse, which will be part of a community garden. The exterior of the bus will be decorated with tiles so that it will double as an art installation.
Laramie, WY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Micromobility enhancements/management
Description: The project will purchase trishaws, which are three-wheel, specially built pedicabs, and train cyclists to provide rides to residents of senior living facilities.
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