The highly anticipated 10th Annual Grow Your Own Project Harvest Festival is just around the corner! On August 24th, Legacy Park will come alive with excitement and energy for this vibrant community event.
Local youth from Fort Saskatchewan will be selling vegetables they’ve grown, with all proceeds benefiting the Fort Saskatchewan, Gibbons, and Redwater food banks. Unsold produce will be donated to these food banks, ensuring that nothing goes to waste.
The festival will feature a variety of activities, including market vendors, games, face painting, a silent auction, live music, and a space balloon launch. Best of all, admission is free, and all proceeds from the event will go towards supporting local food banks.
The Grow Your Own Project has expanded beyond local roots to become a national and even global initiative. Kids across Canada can receive free seeds and donate the produce they grow to their local food banks, making a difference in communities far and wide.
What is the project for?
This is a community gardening project that encourages youth 14 and younger to to be part of the change and create a more sustainable future by seeding, watering, weeding, harvesting and donating what they produce.
For the past 10 years the project has produces thousands of pounds of produce that went to local foodbanks an sponsored the festival.
The project wants to become a “Pay it Forward” project where kids will have a chance to give to other children who are less fortunate and in need.
More Information:
For more information check out the project’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SEED.WEED.WATER.HARVEST.DONATE/
Don’t miss out on this festive and charitable event—mark your calendar for August 24th and join us at Legacy Park!
Photo from The Grow Your Own Project Facebook page
