Thank You Zions Bank's Smart Women Smart Money Grant

Thank You Zions Bank's Smart Women Smart Money Grant!  Yesterday at four PM I received a call from Zions Bank telling me that Harmony Garden has been awarded $3,000 for our Tuff shed, lock for shed, and tools for the shed!  I was in shock, but when I got of the phone I was hit with what had happened, Thank you Zions for your generosity!

The Copper Garden in Magna

Here  we are digging again and having loads of fun, but we're doing it at a Salt Lake County Community Garden in Magna called Copper Garden!  Here are the pictures of the dedicated volunteers digging to help another community.

Some of the Volunteers posing before the dig.

Our Volunteers digging in.

Getting started.

The group digging.

Dig, dig, dig!

The plot are coming along nicely.

Group shot of our AWESOME volunteers!

Digging Paths Once Again!!

Thank you volunteers for all your hard work!  The garden is really looking great!  We are a little behind schedule, but we'll hopefully catch-up next week!

Let the digging begin



Volunteer poses on the back of her shovel.

Volunteers share another lame digging joke.

Re-digging a path

Digging into the work



Volunteer resting from digging.

She is volunteering young.

Giles eats his apples and chips in the wheel barrow at break time.

Volunteers talk about what to do next.



Second row of paths.



The garden with all the volunteers and tenants working together.

Tomorrow we will be finishing path digging and laying down cardboard and mulch to become a weed barrier.

Me holding string so those digging this path would know what to do.

Digging Pathway Pictures

Me and Jessie posing after finishing our pathway

Ethan and his Father taking a break from digging their 2 foot path

Thank you all for Coming and Helping the Garden tenants with there garden beds!

Thank you Do Something!!!

Thank you Do Something's Summer Jobless Grants for you generous donation of $500 which will pay for the mulch in the path ways to block weeds from growing.  But, we need to have 25 youth volunteers to help us receive the grant money.  On Saturday the 13th and Saturday the 20th we will be helping finish pathways and set a fence and install drips.  The address is 3700 South Main St in the south-west corner of Harmony Park behind the baseball field. 

Thanks Again Do Something!

What had been done for the garden?

First, the Salt Lake County (SLC), who is funding $35,000, sprayed the grass with lots of Round-up.  The Round-up killed all the grass in the specified area and the Bobcats and volunteers moved in!  Bobcats scooped the grass and the volunteers cut the grass.

Second, SLC learned they were looking at a $45,000 project instead of a $35,000 project!  I received an $800 Corporation of National and Community Service, CNCS, Take Action Grant for the Handicap entrance so that the county could be in line with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).  Of course this was not the $10,000 extra so I continued to look for funding. 

Third, I found the Smart Women Smart Money grant which is funded through Zions Bank.  This grant is for $3,000 which would cover the expense of the Tuff Shed, gardening tools, and lock. 

Fourth, I found the Do Something Summer Jobless Grant for $2,000.  I have known about the Seed Grants which are $500 each, but never heard of a Summer Jobless Grant.

In the future I'm looking at writing a Home Depot Foundation grants where the employees come and help you with your project. 

Harmony Community Garden

What's the Harmony Community Garden?  The Harmony Community Garden is nestled in South Salt Lake which is a food desert as defined by the Economic Research Service of the USDA 2009 research.  A food desert is a low-income census tract where a substantial number of residents have low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.