Harvest of Hope - Kingsport, TN
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vhasler
N 36° 33.079 W 082° 33.498
17S E 360533 N 4046230
New community garden established in 2011 located on Charlemont behind First Presbyterian Church.
Waymark Code: WMC2NT
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 07/18/2011
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Under the umbrella of United Way of Kingsport, AARP, City of Kingsport, First Presbyterian Church, and Tennessee Master Gardeners, the "Harvest of Hope" community garden was established in 2011 as a 501-C3 organization. Per their flyer, it is to be "a place of growing, healing, reflection, laughter - a community collaboration to provide fresh nutritional produce, as well as help the homeless and those living in poverty develop healthy life skills and self esteem." There is a sliding-scale fee for participating in the community garden.
Aerial view in Google Maps shows a house at this location, which was demolished and removed. The garden is in that space.
Within the wire fencing, 25+ plots were observed with a watering hose and small tool shed. The gardens have tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, corn, herbs, marigolds, runner beans, and more.
More information can be found at:
blog
facebook page
church webpage
And the United Way press release link below.