GARDEN NEWS
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On January 5, 2024, Legacy Gardens experienced a tremendous flood that completely devastated our entire fall garden. We are now faced with having to make very difficult choices as to the future of our garden. For the foreseeable season of 2024, Legacy Gardens will be closed to the public as we commence construction to install a fence, raise our beds, relocate our trees and pollinator in our effort to combat climate change. Regular growing and event schedules will proceed this Fall 2024. Thank you for your patience as we make sure this and all our green space ventures are safe and welcoming for all to enjoy for years to come
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LEGACY GARDENS
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Impactful Beginnings
Beginning in 2020, Legacy Heritage purchased 12 lots from The Great State of Alabama to house The Legacy Garden. Over the next two years, and counting, after launching a successful introduction to the city at our inaugural groundbreaking event and community cookout, the garden began bush hogging and clearing the nearly 1/3 acre with love and support from The City of Montgomery, community advocates, volunteers and local businesses. Serving as a membership based community food supplement program providing economic, provisionary and wellness benefits that deliver basic knowledge of medical, therapeutic, and recreational gardening, The Legacy Garden is a salubrious intervention developed to improve the nutritional state of underserved communities suffering from food insecurity. Plans include a main food garden distribution garden, pollinator garden, sensory garden and community compost program.
View Our Timeline
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In the slideshow view our record breaking progress of successful in-kind collaborations with local businesses, volunteers who care with their hands and donations from generous people like you. The Legacy Garden came from a vision transformed into a blueprint manifested into reality, quickly on it's way to becoming a community food oasis for all and we need your help. This slideshow starts at our groundbreaking inaugural event January 2020, through the building of our brick raised beds that Spring onto the introduction of Lowe's Home Improvement as our first corporate sponsor, then sails through our first and second grow of 2022, our pollinators of 2023 and so much more...
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Nutritional Education
According to the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, residents who live within a twenty-five-mile radius of The Newtown Church of Christ, located 1709 N. Decatur St. Montgomery Alabama 36110, are identified as census tract three, Montgomery County, Alabama As vulnerability ranges score from 0 to 1, this tract is categorized as carrying a vulnerability range closer to one due to impacting socioeconomic, household composition, minority, and transportation factors. The preceding community conditions require an intervention that addresses the well-being of the most vulnerable food insecure population of children, elderly, and disabled citizens by speaking to the behavior change assumptions of the mothers and caregivers that make the nutritional decisions of the household. Providing an opportunity for mothers to improve the health of their children, caregivers to offer a nutritional element to their care instructions, the ability to incorporate new eating practices supported by husbands and adult children, and the availability and affordability of nutritious food are all necessary aspirational factors of this targeted audience. In response to the declining nutritional state of children, elderly and disabled citizens residing in census tract 3, Montgomery County, Alabama due to the disaster of The Coronavirus pandemic, Legacy Heritage proposes that by training and informing mothers and caregivers in nutritional benefits and healthy eating practices, in a primarily community garden environment, their past behaviors will change to improve the nutritional states of the children, elderly and disabled individuals in their care.
Learn the who, what, where, why and how of all things in sustainable gardening.
This class is perfect for.........
1. Gardeners with limited space
2. First Time Gardeners
3. Looking for Natural Seasonings to Reduce High Blood Pressure
4. Looking for Natural Sweeteners to Reduce Diabetes
5. Need to Supplement your fresh fruit and vegetable supply
6. Want to learn how to grown your own personalized medical and nutritional garden at home?
7. Are you an experienced gardener looking to share knowledge and fellowship?
This class is perfect for.........
1. Gardeners with limited space
2. First Time Gardeners
3. Looking for Natural Seasonings to Reduce High Blood Pressure
4. Looking for Natural Sweeteners to Reduce Diabetes
5. Need to Supplement your fresh fruit and vegetable supply
6. Want to learn how to grown your own personalized medical and nutritional garden at home?
7. Are you an experienced gardener looking to share knowledge and fellowship?
