Adopted by the non-profit organization Love A Sea Turtle (LAST) in 2017, the Greenville Community Garden has served as an essential component of the Sustainable Hunger Initiative as a medium for fresh-produce distribution and nutrition education.

Youth volunteers throughout the community engage in experiential service-learning, nutrition education, and the gardening process on workday-events - serving as a critical role in growing and harvesting fresh-produce for low-income families, in producing healthier communities, and in inspiring more action against food-insecurity.

Thanks to the support of over 10,000 volunteers from our community, our Garden has donated 3,000+ pounds of fresh produce to families residing in food-desert areas. By ensuring access to healthy, nutritious foods and promoting a readily-accessible Community Garden, we help deconstruct the socioeconomic, mental, and geographic barriers between underserved families and healthy-food access.

The year-round consistency of food donations is also ensured by weekly pick-ups of excess perishable food from the local SHEETZ store and the monthly distribution of surplus dry-snack items from a local snack retailer.