Growling Garden Print

star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Civic engagement and "Smart Cities"
Families will receive a raised-bed garden, soil, seeds, and plants to make a successful food-producing training program, vegetable, and herb garden for the season.

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Volunteers building raised garden beds.
Volunteers filling raised beds with soil.
450 seed packages made.

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