The Veterans Free Food Garden would like to 'adopt a veterans group' for its downtown location behind the Rialto Theater.

The garden has 20 raised beds which a group of volunteers will be planting soon.

WE WOULD LIKE A VET ORGANIZATION TO BE THE RECIPIENT OF THE FOOD. 

We anticipate the garden can feed 50-100 people, if tended well, which we will help to do with the recipients.

If you know a group or family who could benefit, and would be willing to come help tend the gardens, please contact Holly Chaille at:

greenleafvetgardens@gmail.com

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Greenleaf Vet Gardens

Hello All!

It looks like we are in for a wonderful spring and summer this year, and all of the garden projects should be fantastic!

There will be a volunteer training for both returning and new volunteers, on Monday, April 27th, at 5pm, at the Slataper Street Farm.

The farm is located at 2305 Slataper Street, about two blocks south of Adams Elementary School, and just off of Wayne Trace.

Whether you've already chosen which project/s you want to join or still have questions, this will be a great time to meet everyone, see the main farm and find out what we have planned for this year.

We primarily need volunteers who can regularly work 3 hours each week.

If you are thinking you can only do a one-time event, please reply to me and I will switch you to that email list for notifications.

I am attaching the information and application which you can complete and either scan back to me, or bring to the farm on the 27th.

NO garden experience is necessary to volunteer, but please let us know if you have any particular expertise.

WE DO STILL HAVE SPOTS OPEN FOR PARTICIPANTS IN THE GREENLEAF VET GARDENS PROJECT, so if you know a vet who'd like to learn how to grow food and market through a weekly farmers market, please have them contact me right away-- classes for that project start next week!

I appreciate your interest, and look forward to growing with you this year!

Holly Chaille

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Greenleaf Vet Garden

Greenleaf Veteran Gardens Operates a CSA Farm

The Greenleaf Veteran Gardens operates a small Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm and would like to invite you to become a member. We are only offering a VERY limited number of shares this year so that both our customers and our veterans will have the most amazing experience possible. Weather permitting, we will begin the CSA the week of JUNE 14th, 2015. We plan for a 16-week CSA project, but will let you know if we have things earlier OR later, at no additional charge to you.

The cost this season is $400, which works out to $25 a week, for fresh, local, hand-raised produce grown by men and women who have already served our country and now serve you!

You’ll be able to pick up your produce every Sunday at a very special market run by Greenleaf. Once you become a CSA member, you will receive more details about the market.

Your membership fee goes directly to supporting the supplies, materials and tools for veterans right here in Fort Wayne. You are welcome to donate more, or consider becoming a sponsor*, but be certain that your CSA membership fee is doing so much good for you and our community!

* Sponsorship benefits are available upon request.

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Greenleaf Vet Gardens

Garden Approved for Veterans

APPLE VALLEY — San Bernardino County, CA, supervisors approved a $25,000, two-acre garden in Apple Valley to provide therapy for homeless veterans in transitional housing.

The growing space, funded by a grant award from the California Department of Veteran Affairs, will include a greenhouse, aquaponics growth system, cold-frame growing structures, shade structures and a fruit orchard, according to a county staff report.

In particular, the garden is targeted toward helping residents of the Orenda Foundation Veterans Project, a transitional housing facility in Apple Valley.

Partnering with the Incredible Edible Community Garden, “this non-traditional approach will assist returning disabled homeless veterans in their readjustment and will further advance the VA’s ability to help those who have suffered as a result of serving our country,” the report said.

A separate component called neurofeedback training will be used to evaluate the efficacy of the project, the report said.

By Shea Johnson - Staff Writer
Victorville Daily Press


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Greenleaf Vet Gardens

Greenleaf Brochure - Application - Sponsorship

WHO WE SERVE

This project serves United States veterans. Any veteran can self refer, or be referred by another agency. We will work with 5 clients in the first year, who will attend the program 4-6 hours per week for 18 weeks. There is a $200 program fee that clients will help pay, through sponsorships, work in the program, donations, and the Grow- It-Forward gardens.

WE ARE NOW RECRUITING! 

SPACE IS LIMITED SO PLEASE APPLY QUICKLY!

Greenleaf Project Cultivates Horticultural Opportunities for Veterans

By Julia Meek

Most garden activity this time of year is limited to daydreaming over seed catalogs, but two Fort Wayne residents, Holly Chaille and Sheila Hudson, are busy cultivating a brand new urban gardening and Horticultural Healing Program, expressly for veterans.

Beginning in March, "Greenleaf" will provide a nine month, hands-on vocational training opportunity for fifteen vets to grow new skills for work in horticulture-related fields, and organic gardens to benefit the community.

Sheila Hudson and Holly Chaille believe that their Greenleaf Project will improve the sense of well-being among veterans, their peers and the community.

Credit Ellie Bogue

http://wboi.org/post/greenleaf-project-cultivates-horticultural-opportunities-veterans

Veterans and Horticultural Healing Program

Veterans will have the opportunity to grow their abilities and their own food through a new horticultural healing program.




Started by Greenleaf, Urban Gardening and Horticultural Healing, the program will give clients hands on vocational training that combines rehabilitation, healing and allows clients to create a food garden.




Holly Chaille and Sheila Hudson have joined forces to create the new program. The idea is to help veterans who are challenged by physical and emotional challenges such as PTSD. Chaille said horticultural therapy can help combat depression, decrease physical pain, improve memory and concentration encourage social interaction, reduce stress and anger and enhance productivity.




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