Clients: Lower-income communities, people residing in USDA-designated food deserts, and people relying on social benefit programs (e.g. SNAP, WIC).
Project: Using urban farms as hubs to engage communities. The creation of holistic solutions to the complex problem of poverty, and it's symptoms, like hunger and food insecurity.
Outcomes:
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Better access to resources for health
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Job creation! Equipping people with the skills required to turn talents, arts and crafts into cash. Incorporating businesses that will hire locally, for the betterment of the community
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Equipping people with vocational, recreational and improved social skills related to the urban farms and community gardens
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Health, Diet and Nutrition education
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Generating food for personal consumption and/or donation to communities in need
