Arkansas GardenCorps


 

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Arkansas GardenCorps is an AmeriCorps program hosted by the Access to Healthy Foods Research Group at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute in Little Rock, Arkansas. The mission of Arkansas GardenCorps is to promote the use of school and community gardens to provide nutrition education with the purpose of reducing childhood obesity and to increase environmental awareness and sustainable agriculture practices in Arkansas communities. Members assist Service Sites across the state of Arkansas with the following objectives:
-Development and maintenance of school and community gardens
-Garden-based nutrition education for youth and adults
-Recruitment of volunteers to support sustainability of gardens
-Increase access to fresh produce grown in gardens

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