Money available for community gardens - WBTV Online

The goal: to plant 1,000 gardens and green spaces across the U.S., Canada and Europe by 2018.  The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company wants to make that happen and today launched a new program called GRO1000, offering $1,500 grants to deserving communities and organizations in the hopes it will get people involved in creating more community gardens and green spaces where they call home.

“Something happens when communities grow and learn together,” said Jim King, ScottsMiracle-Gro’s senior vice president of corporate affairs. “People develop a sense of pride and accomplishment when they get involved in cleaning up their neighborhoods, growing flowers, or cultivating their own healthy local food, and we want to help them get the job done.”
Communities interested in pursuing
2011 GRO1000 grassroots grants can apply online at http://salisbury.wbtv.com/redir.aspx?C=2e056ae580704345bc49c9dd849eaea8&URL=http%3a%2f%2fthescottsmiraclegrocompany.com%2fGRO1000 by March 31, 2011. Projects should include the involvement of neighborhood residents and foster a sense of community spirit.
This year’s crop of ScottsMiracle-Gro’s community gardens is already underway. Today, teachers, parents, and students at Morning Star School in Tampa, Florida are getting their hands dirty planting edible and learning gardens on the school’s campus.
Throughout 2011, ScottsMiracle-Gro and its partners: Keep America Beautiful, Plant A Row for the Hungry, Garden Writers Association, the National Gardening Association and Franklin Park Conservatory will establish gardens and green spaces in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, New York, Ontario, Canada and Lyon, France.