Empowering Families To take Charge of Their Food
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Life begins the day you start a garden
Since 2007 Greentown Waukegan has been a grassroots nonprofit installing gardens, growing vegetables for donation, educating citizens on the many benefits of gardening, and inspiring youth to explore nature.
Greentown Grows is our new name, reflecting our changing mission to meet the needs of the community
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our Mission
Igniting the family-grown food revolution by empowering home gardens and networks of neighborhood gardeners. Deepening the knowledge and love of nature to preserve our planet and nurture a lifelong commitment to reverence for life.
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