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Eufaula, AL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will create a community garden equipped with at least five raised beds for growing flowers and vegetables, as well as three accessible benches. All the food grown there will be provided to local low-income families.
Byhalia, MS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Funding will be used to purchase raised garden beds and repair the sidewalk around a community orchard and garden.
San Juan, PR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will install four raised beds and two accessible benches in an existing community garden, which is located in a low-income area with many older residents.
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Pine Bluff, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: For children living below the poverty line in Pine Bluffs, affordable fruits and vegetables are difficult to come by. The Seed to Table Community Garden helps to close the gap, providing garden plots for local families. The City of Pine Bluffs further improved the garden by installing an accessible pavilion and eight benches. They also provided extra gardening supplies, fertilizer and seedlings to help the garden serve additional residents.
Pine Bluff, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Bike Audits
Description: The city will conduct three bike audits to determine where to add bike lanes, as the current absence of such lanes puts cyclists at risk. The project will specifically invite older adult volunteers to weigh in.
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