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Chester County Food Bank

Chester County Food Bank mobilizes the community to ensure access to real, healthy food. The Raised Bed Garden Program increases availability of fresh produce for households at risk of food insecurity by supporting garden installations at partner organizations, providing community education on growing your own food, and by fostering community around food and gardening. Partner gardens are located throughout Chester County at schools, food cupboards, and social service agencies. In 2019 we distributed 46,672 seedlings to partner gardens who collectively grew 34,676 pounds of produce.

Seedleaf

Seedleaf works to relieve food deserts in north Lexington. We educate youth and adult citizens in our 13 urban garden spaces on market gardening, sustainability, and wellness cultivating the next generation of local food producers and healthy eaters. Our urban gardens also allow the community to come and and harvest for free during the growing season. Seedleaf also provides the public with composting services. We pick up food scraps from homes and businesses and process it at our facilities to be sold as a life-giving soil supplement.

Each Green Corner

Each Green Corner seeks to bridge the gap between home gardeners and food distribution non-profits to increase the pipeline of fresh, healthy, and culturally-diverse produce for our non-profit partners to distribute throughout our local communities. In the process, EGC promotes awareness about food insecurity in our communities, the deep connection between food security and public health, the importance of permaculture and sustainable agriculture to environmental health, and using urban agriculture as a means to build community.

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