Green Urban Lunch Box pairs sometimes isolated seniors with volunteers, who help them grow backyard gardens and make new social connections. The organization then donates a portion of the produce they grow to free farmers markets.
Green Urban Lunch Box donates a portion of the produce it helps seniors grow to free farmers markets.
garden looks ever since he began hosting. But more than that, he said he’s seen a positive shift in the way he views the world. Plants have always been an important part of Comstock’s life, he said. He grew up in Redlands, California, next to orange tree orchards. As he watched them die out and become developed land, he resolved to do his part in growing organic food, he said.
Comstock has been impressed by Collette’s expertise, he said. He’s been growing squash for 55 years, and she was able to address an infection in his plant he had never known how to fix. He likes learning from her, he said. The Green Urban Lunch Box provides an alternative link to the outside world for those seniors, she said.The Back Farms program currently serves 45 gardens spread across Sandy, Millcreek, Rose Park and Taylorsville. It’s at capacity right now for the amount of gardens it can take on, Collette said. She and two other garden leaders split two trucks to visit each of the gardens throughout the week.
“My favorite thing is when we plant a seed and it actually grows, and someone who has never ever gardened before sees how it works,” she said. “It’s really magical.”Many of the volunteers who offer to help Collette already have gardening experience, but they often live in apartments where they don’t have land to grow anything. In that way, the work becomes an outlet for them to go back to their passion, she said.
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