Community Gardens

Providing fresh-produce distribution, community engagement, nutrition education, and outdoor classroom and dialogue spaces, our Community Gardens combat hunger in direct, innovative ways.

Adopted by the non-profit organization Love A Sea Turtle (LAST) in 2017, the Greenville Community Garden was one of Sustainable Hunger Initiative's first community garden initiatives. Since its inception, the Community Garden has fostered partnerships across the nation and inspired the revitalization, transformation, and establishment of several community garden projects throughout Eastern North Carolina.

Community

While fostering community service engagement and collaboration, our Gardens provide critical services to low-income neighborhoods without access to healthy, nutritious foods.

Our Gardens bridge existing geographic and socioeconomic barriers by providing ready access to free, fresh vegetables in the local community, promoting healthy dietary options, and facilitating independence in sustaining one's well-being.

Volunteers from various ages and interests come and help harvest and maintain vegetables at the Greenville Community Garden through our bi-monthly service opportunities.

Thanks to the support of over 10,000 volunteers from our community, our Greenville Community Garden has donated 3,000+ pounds of fresh produce to families residing in food-desert areas.

To receive updates on upcoming volunteer-opportunities, like us on Facebook: @GreenvilleCommunityGarden

Nutrition Education

As youth engage in the gardening process themselves, they are informed of the health benefits and nutrition value of the vegetables they grow, of their direct impact in alleviating food-insecurity, and of how they can apply kitchen-skills at home to enjoy healthy foods.

Along with providing experiential-learning as outdoor classroom spaces, our Garden advances nutrition education through innovative Plant Against Disease (PAD) signs displaying nutrition facts, through food-demonstrations and tastings, and through additional on-site nutrition-education programs.

Nutrition education is critical in preventing poor nutrition: a commonality within food-desert areas and a major factor in hunger and various health-issues. Thus, our Gardens equips youth with the knowledge, desire, and ability to lead healthy dietary habits now and in the future.

Sustainability

As our world is in ever-increasing need of sustainable, environmentally-conscious solutions, the Greenville Community Garden serves as a model to be replicated throughout communities.

Its sustainable agricultural methods include a food-composting system and the elimination of pesticide-use.

"Talking Circle" - Community Dialogue

*Description "Inspired by the Native American 'Talking Circle..."

Verbiage -can be taken from Brown's CDP project or other existing ones...... in which, essentially, the 'Talking Circle' is held monthly or quarterly at the Orchard


Photos are found on Google Photos Album (can be cropped later)




Partnerships

In its efforts to tackle food-insecurity and combat food-deserts, the Greenville Community Garden has established several partnerships to accomplishing its goal.

Thanks to the support of various partners across the nation, the Community Gardens continues to provide impactful nutrition education and access to healthy, nutritious foods for families residing in food-desert areas.

Impact

Through its far-reaching food-distribution impact, use of sustainable farming methods, and success in providing access to healthy, nutritious foods, the Greenville Community Garden serves as a viable, real solution to food-insecurity and food-deserts, as well as a replicable model to follow throughout communities.

Join Us in Tackling Food-Insecurity:

Donate to Our Cause: Greenville Community Garden GoFundMe

Support the Greenville Community Garden and like us on Facebook! @GreenvilleCommunityGarden

Instagram: @GreenvilleCommunityGarden