Last summer our daughter Kirsten served as a trainee with Majors Bob and Collette Webster at the Kroc Center in South Bend IN.
Kirsten wrote at that time –
The Kroc Center here in South Bend has a Unity Garden. It is part of a community initiative to make sure everyone has access to fresh vegetables, as well as educating everyone about how to grow this food. I spoke with a volunteer on Saturday about her Unity garden- she said last year they had to replant the garden because the whole first crop died- the learning curve. Education about fresh vegetables is critical in this community to help people access the food available growing from the ground 🙂 And it is provided by this initiative.
Here’s specific mention of the Salvation Army’s partnering with Unity Gardens. Scroll down and you’ll see a couple photos of work on the Army’s garden (sorry, I couldn’t post them here).
Good investment in the community, and a nice collaborative arrangement!
This is awesome!!! Great pictures (on the Unity Garden site). This is an awesome way to educate folks on the food that they eat and to give them a sustainable food source. Nice to see the Army involved in such an amazing project.