Help pave the path to Let it Grow.
Junior League of Duluth
is employing a multi-strategy approach that will help address employment
barriers, food access, and food insecurity in a USDA-identified Food Desert.
One of those strategies is to build a Deep Winter Greenhouse for Community
Action Duluth’s Seeds of Success Program (SoS). Operation of this greenhouse
will enable SoS to grow greater quantities of healthy food all year round as
well as expand their transitional employment program into a time of year when their
fields are idle.
SoS currently runs an
18-week farmers market in Lincoln Park, a neighborhood that has no grocery
store. Food grown in this greenhouse will allow the Lincoln Park Farmers Market
to expand into the winter months, offering their affordable fresh produce for
sale year-round alongside value added products and storage crops from other
vendors.
The Deep Winter
Greenhouse will exist in concert with other food-related projects happening
nearby: a new community garden and edible forest will share the adjacent lot, and
the new Denfeld Whole Foods Co-op is across the street with a space for
educational programs and cooking classes. Once the greenhouse is built and the
garden is growing, this space will become a catalyst for further conversation
and educational programming.
4" x 8" brick samples
8" x 8" brick samples
How will this greenhouse be funded?
A combination of JLD fundraising efforts, Federal grant monies, the
generosity of our community , grants, as well as funds designated by our
project partners, including Zeitgeist Center for the Arts and Community and the
City of Duluth.
