Feeding Our Community
The Dirt2Table project is focused on building community, one seed at a time. We do this through education to ensure that we are empowered to enhance our communities learning how to grow our own food and knowing that there is support in the process. Building community resilience means “feeding” our community in many ways. The Dirt2Table project concentrates on ensuring that community members not only learn how to grow their own food but know that they have support in the process.
The benefits of growing your own food are many. Gardening is fun, good for your health, improves your life with exercise and the benefit of high quality nutrition with home-grown fruits and vegetables. Growing your own food helps build community resilience. A resilient community strengthens neighborhoods by building relationships and learning to to use available resources to survive in adverse situations. Additionally, growing your own food is empowering in that you are in control of what you use in your gardening.
Every year Dirt2Table holds a “foodraiser”: The Community Celebration of Spring and Plant Share. This event is designed to educate community members about backyard food production. We plant every plant from seed. Each year we grow more plants to distribute into the community. Over 9,000 seeds are planted by the loving hands of volunteers. Our plant share is in full swing in April and May when we get the nurtured plants into the hands of the food gardens of individuals, families, daycares, schools, churches, libraries and other charitable organizations. We have been building relationships and encouraging back yard food production since 2013. The plant share is 100% volunteer powered and every penny from event is returned back to the project for future events.
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