The city of Atlanta received a $40,000 grant for its Urban Agriculture Expansion Project recently. The announcement was made at the 84th winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The ScottsMiracle-Gro Company partnered with USCM to award grants through its green space development program.
Atlanta was one of four winners, including New York; Providence, Rhode Island; and St. Louis, Missouri.
The winning cities were chosen by a panel of former mayors and national garden experts, to develop gardens and green spaces that will help transform their communities.
The program is part of ScottsMiracle-Gro’s commitment to the creation of more than 1,000 community gardens and green spaces by 2018, in conjunction with the company’s 150th anniversary. More than 680 communities have received funding.
The Mayor’s Office of Sustainability designed the project, which will expand three urban agriculture programs across the city, such as the city’s ten fire station vegetable gardens, and serve as teaching and demonstration gardens for the surrounding communities.
The grant will also benefit urban agriculture projects in the Vine City neighborhood and within the Atlanta University Center’s four historically black universities.
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