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.

Fresh Food Initiatives

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


The Fresh Food Initiatives

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!