Gardens for Good grows nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year
Volunteers tend 15 backyard and community gardens in Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, and Medford, and they give all of the produce to local food pantries.
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Volunteers with Gardens for Good tend 15 backyard and community gardens in Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, and Medford, and they give all the produce to local food pantries, CBS Boston reported. The gardens yield nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year. That weight is the yearly harvest from those 15 plots. None of it is held back for sale. It goes to the pantries.
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Gardens for Good is a volunteer project based in Woburn, Massachusetts, CBS Boston reported. People tend 15 gardens, some in backyards and some shared by a community, in Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, and Medford. Together the gardens grow nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year. All of that produce goes to local food pantries, not to a farm stand. Nearly 2,000 pounds is about what they harvest in a year. Fifteen is the number of gardens.
- Why give an entire harvest to a pantry instead of selling it?
- How can a backyard count as part of a community project?
- What is the difference between one garden and 15 of them?
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