OKT Gardeners picking organic starter food plants at Blandford Farm Greenhouse /Courtesy of Our Kitchen Table
Access to gardens, famer markets in low income areas to increase
Community members shopping at the Southeast Farmers Market /Courtesy of Our Kitchen Table
Cook, Eat and Talk event featuring Jermale Eddie of Malamiah Juice Bar /Courtesy of Our Kitchen Table
On Saturday, February 8 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Our Kitchen Table (OKT) will host an open house at their office to celebrate a recent grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF). [UPDATE] OKT OPEN HOUSE IS POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH. NEW DATE PENDING.
The $300,000 grant was awarded December 1, 2013 and continues until December 31, 2016 and is part of the Kellogg Foundation's efforts to support groups that encourage access to local healthy food.
OKT plans to use this grant to expand their Food Growing Program, a key project that provides households with the materials to grow their own food for a year.
"Anybody who wants to do a garden, we try to help in some way to share our resources because we really want to encourage people to grow and share food," says Lisa Oliver King, the Executive Director of OKT.
OKT was founded in 2003 as a grassroots nonprofit organization designed to support lower income communities in the greater Grand Rapids area. OKT focuses its work in the Baxter, Eastown, SECA and Garfield Park neighborhoods.
For more information see article: Access to gardens, famer markets in low income areas to increase
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