This North Carolina Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) project uses community gardening to: empower communities to produce food for families, deliver hands-on nutrition education, create opportunities for youth to develop agri-related business skills, build leadership among community members, and provide engaging activities for family members of all ages to work together for a common purpose.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Wagram Community Garden Featured in Solutions Publication

This just in by way of the electronic newsletter for Faculty and Staff of NC A&Ts School of Agriculture and Environmental Science...
By ag e-dispatch on January 11, 2012 4:58 PM
extension iconThe latest edition of The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T's multimedia annual report, Solutions for North Carolina™, is now available for an online sneak preview. This year's Solutions answers the question: Who are we? The parade of responses starts with maple syrup production in the northeast mountains, and then marches on through nutrition and environmental education for 4-H'ers; community gardens in the Piedmont and the state's southeast corner; and programs that are helping families manage their finances and farmers get up to speed on computer technology.

One of the success stories in this year's Solutions is a community garden in Scotland County that yielded a special recognition for Melissa Tomas, A&T Extension's community garden coordinator at the Scotland County Extension Center. Tomas received an award of appreciation at the Wagram community's Harvest Celebration Dinner in mid-December. The dinner drew several local officials and considerable coverage in The Laurinburg Exchange.

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