Outstanding Gardens
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June 20, 2008
Randall D. Schultz for Mantis
NEW YORK
East New York Farms!/United Community Centers, Brooklyn
Thanks to the East New York Farms! Project, 24 local teens can participate in a 9-month internship program, where they work the half-acre urban farm, neighborhood gardens and the East New York Gardener’s Market. They learn about agriculture, community collaboration, entrepreneurship and leadership, and, at the same time, the program makes nutritious food affordably available to the community.
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The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, New York City
With the help of young volunteers and elders from the community, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol garden project has transformed a once dried out, brick laden, un-stewarded garden into a beautiful flower, vegetable and herb garden. The transformed lot now houses a gazebo, meeting space, a play space for its youth and a close-to-completion greenhouse.
NORTH CAROLINA
Academy Heights Elementary School, Pinehurst
The 19 fifth-grade honor students who make up the Junior Beta Club at Academy Heights Elementary School will not only be making holiday meals from the vegetables they harvest, they will use the flowers from the cutting garden to create gifts for residents in the nursing homes they visit. All the students at Academy Heights Elementary School will benefit from the comprehensive outdoor learning garden and hope that it will encourage other schools to build outdoor learning gardens as well.
OREGON
Rotary First Harvest, Eagle Point
The Rotary First Harvest project is a nonprofit established for charitable and educational purposes. It is dedicated to obtaining food products and providing them, without cost, to community food banks and similar feeding organizations. Its mission is to feed the hungry with fresh, nutritious produce through existing food distribution and transportation systems.
TENNESSEE
Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin
The Volunteer State Community College garden is both a resource for nature-centered learning and a site for appreciation of the natural environment. The garden is a place where students can learn biology, geology and the arts. In turn, those who walk the trails that surround the garden can experience and enjoy this gardening project as well.
TEXAS
South Plains Food Bank, Inc. – GRUB, Lubbock
The South Plains Food Bank project began as a means to grow food for low-income and food bank clients. Through the help of local experts, who teach monthly classes there, it has also become a job and life skills training ground for low-income and at risk teens.
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