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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public places
The Blue Moon Community Garden is a vibrant part of Tucson House, which provides rental support and low-income housing to older and disabled members of the community. This project will make improvements and provide new programming and outreach to Tucson House residents to increase their access to healthy food.

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New entrance arch to garden.
Studying native flowers.
Digging hole for compostable toilet.

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