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star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces
To address health stress issues effecting the area, this project will establish the Community Orchard and Garden which will be used as a gathering space for healthy bar-be-que events, healthy living education, implementation of green infrastructure demonstration projects, a community garden, and a community orchard.

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Volunteers filling raised bed with soil.
Volunteers raking community garden.
Volunteer with completed community garden.

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