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Texas Health updates council on Bridgeport Community Garden; over 3,200 pounds of produce in under three years
Summary
Texas Health staff gave a progress report on the USDA-funded Bridgeport Community Garden at Payne Park, describing a finished teaching barn, volunteer contributions and distribution plans; the program’s three-year grant enters its final year.
Texas Health program staff told the Bridgeport City Council that the Bridgeport Community Garden at Payne Park has produced more than 3,200 pounds of produce in under three years and now includes a completed teaching barn and several community partners.
The report came during the council’s special presentations. “I’m Melanie Neswadome. I’m a program manager at Texas Health in our community impact department,” Melanie Neswadome said, introducing the project and noting the garden is in the third and final year of a three-year USDA grant.
The garden now has a “fully operating barn with a full kitchen, teaching space, meeting space, storage room, [a] cold room…
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