Laramie, WY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Public Spaces

Description: This grant will improve the Laramie community by creating a new community garden in a public city park, one that is inviting and fully accessible to people of all ages and abilities to come together. Laramie of Albany County, Wyoming, has the highest rate of food insecurity in the state, and this will have a direct impact on food insecurity and the health-related challenges associated with that problem.

Laramie, WY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Public places

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.