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Wheeling, WV

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This project will convert a vacant space near older adult housing and a retirement community into a new community garden. The garden will include raised beds for growing fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers.

Trinidad, CO

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This project restored the museum garden and divided it into seven specialty gardens (dye, herb, heritage, high altitude/low water, medicinal and vegetable), which now feature raised planting beds and ADA-compliant seating.

Green Bay, WI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: The project will create a landscaped garden for growing medicinal plants traditional to the Oneida Nation. Signage will describe each plants importance, history and use and community elders will harvest the plants for social and medicinal purposes.

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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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