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.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Community Garden Dedication

Piney Woods Chapel Baptist Church in Powellsville, North Carolina dedicated their church community garden at a celebration event this past Saturday, March 10, 2012. Twenty church members came out to have breakfast together and bless the site.

The community will collectively grow food for the congregation members and others in the community. They will involve youth in the garden, teaching them how to grow food and other life skills ... passing down knowledge from one generation to the next.


Plans for the spring are to plant cabbage, onions, kale, broccoli, potatoes...and to try something new, maybe even some swiss chard and strawberries!
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