Spotlight: GROW HUB

Growing Real Opportunities to Work--Harvest of Urban Business (GROW HUB) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2016 with the purpose of providing employment options to veterans and people with developmental disabilities. GROW HUB is based on Farm to School to Work Hub, a program for Alachua County high school students of varying abilities up to age 22. Entrepreneurs who rent plots of land from GROW HUB to grow food hire program participants, who don't have as many job opportunities as the non-disabled. The organization is seeking volunteers and donations of money and gardening tools. In a partnership with another nonprofit called Working Food, GROW HUB is hosting a craft sale and fundraiser on its property in Gainesville, Florida, from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, August 4. For more information, go to https://www.grow-hub.org/.

A GROW HUB banner

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