The Bull City Cool Food Hub is located in a USDA-designated food desert, or an urban neighborhood “without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food.” And strategically so.
The hub is designed to bring fresh veggies to food-desert residents, many of whom are more than a half-mile from the nearest supermarket. We’re bridging the gap by bringing fresh-food-focused small businesses and non-profit agencies together at the hub. And now by adding a bustling community garden as well!
Reinvestment Partners, founders of Bull City Cool, played host to participants of the Youth Summer Service Week (YSSW) on July 3rd. Youth engaged in YSSW’s “Nourish” session learned about local hunger and food sources through onsite tours, conversations with leaders, and service projects. One of these was engagement in our community garden, just across the street from the food hub.
YSSW kids helped us get the community garden ready for fall planting by clearing the cover crop, not a small task in a garden that stretches across a quarter-acre. In this photo you can see the group hard at work, not afraid to get dirty… or of the four baby snakes they found while clearing the beds.
After the YSSW kids’ efforts, garden lessee InterFaith Food Shuttle will be able to literally and figuratively “dig in” to the hard work of growing a garden in a desert.