What are the details?

The Garden of Eatin provides a space for a community garden which will help the Grace Welcome Center provide fresh produce to all they serve.

• Since fresh produce goes bad so quickly The Grace Welcome Center is not able to give it out very often having to resort to frozen or canned produce which is never the same.

The garden will be managed by Spirit Alive volunteers.

• Spirit Alive is giving volunteers to run and manage the community gardens in order to give to The Grace Welcome Center.

Fresh fruit and vegetables were often missing from The Grace Welcome Centers meals due to its short shelf life.

• The garden was an important advancement since it allowed for the greater chance that The Grace Welcome Center could serve fresh produce

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While the completed mural focuses on words and drawings of oversized fruits and veggies, it also honors two neighborhood children who died in recent years: Dakari Weldon, a 5-year-old boy killed when playing with a loaded gun in his home in 2019, and Naomi Guerrero, a 5-year-old girl killed in an auto accident in 2014.

• This is important since the mural is not just to draw attention to the garden, it also honors two children who lost their lives in the past few years.

The Wind Chime Gardens are only 7 house from The Grace Welcome Center.

• This is important since that means transport of produce over short distances means they don't have to be picked prematurely.