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Hamilton, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project engaged older adults to serve as hosts of a community garden in their own yards or elsewhere. Teen volunteers maintained the gardens, with hosts doing the watering and receiving a share of the produce. The hosts donated the rest of the produce.
Lincoln, NE
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: NeighborWorks Lincoln turned a vacant lot into a community garden. Volunteers installed fifteen raised garden beds, along with lighting and an arbor entranceway. Other improvements include walkway and seating. Residents have access to fresh produce grown onsite. In addition, project organizers recruited experienced gardeners to help beginners learn the ropes. Today, residents -- many of whom represent the area's Latino, Iraqi and Karen communities -- use the garden as a space to socialize. Locals have told NeighborWorks that they feel safer walking past the site now that it's a garden instead of an abandoned lot. And work on the garden paved the way for future projects as well. Organizers also said they worked with the City of Lincoln to work around rules restricting planting in a public right-of-way, which helped make future gardening plans feasible.
Baker, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will help create a food forest, which will provide residents with fresh food and promote environmental sustainability. Unlike a community garden, a food forest mimics the natural ecosystem, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables.
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Naknek, AK
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: To keep residents of all ages active, this project set out to update outdoor fitness trails, providing space for people of all ages to engage with each other. Camai Community Center developed a summer walking path and winter ski trail. To offer the community an intergenerational activity, the organization created a story walk, which features pages of a storybook displayed in succession along the pathway. They then hosted invited local elders groups to walk the path with preschool children and read to them.
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