Seniors and Sprouts brings seniors and youth together and uses gardens as a conversation starter. If you have grandparents, are a grandparent, have kids or were ever a child … where did you get some of your wisdom? We would like to tell you more about us and why we are asking for your support this giving season. Finding a deserving nonprofit to send a tax deductible donation to can be a confusing task. You have the old standbys, but who is new and can really make a grass roots difference?
An excerpt from our Blog (Blog Link) -
Seniors and Sprouts’ Food Pallet Garden and IntoECO programs help make the goal of a ‘garden community’ a reality. Through the Food Pallet Garden program, Seniors and Sprouts provides and installs gardening pallets, known as Food Pallets, to those who make a donation to the organization. The pallets take only about 30 minutes to set up, are weed-free, require less water than traditional gardens and, depending on what plants are cultivated, can yield pounds of fresh food.
“I give Food Pallets away for a donation, with the caveat that
donors say they will try to get youth involved with gardening”
Founder William “Corky” Sheeler
The IntoECO program aims to bring Seniors and Sprouts’ mission to companies and public spaces by “working with businesses to help them go greener and show the neighborhood that they want to be greener,” Sheeler said. He has worked with local companies including A.D. Moyer Lumber and Cedarville Engineering Group LLC (CEG) to clean up the land around billboards, plant native flowers and design rain gardens, which utilize rain runoff from buildings and gutters to more efficiently spread water through the soil. Through these key programs, Sheeler seeks to benefit the community and showcase the mutual benefits that are possible when people — seniors and children, companies and communities — connect with each other and the planet. “We can build and we can eat if we just work together a little bit at a time,” Sheeler said.
We, at Seniors and Sprouts, are starting to make a difference and would like to expand our impact. Working as a nonprofit under the fiscal sponsorship of Humanitarian Social Innovations, (http://www.hsifiscalsponsor.org/) , we have started and are adding new projects to our portfolio on a regular basis.
With this in mind, we are asking for your support at this time. We have plenty to do, lots to organize, and so many opportunities to contact future participants in our programs.
It is true that some seniors need to learn how to let the children lead them, but the children also need some life based wisdom to grow.
Thank you, please share this email, and call with questions … I believe in talking, not texting!
DONATE HERE!
An excerpt from our Blog (Blog Link) -
Seniors and Sprouts’ Food Pallet Garden and IntoECO programs help make the goal of a ‘garden community’ a reality. Through the Food Pallet Garden program, Seniors and Sprouts provides and installs gardening pallets, known as Food Pallets, to those who make a donation to the organization. The pallets take only about 30 minutes to set up, are weed-free, require less water than traditional gardens and, depending on what plants are cultivated, can yield pounds of fresh food.
“I give Food Pallets away for a donation, with the caveat that
donors say they will try to get youth involved with gardening”
Founder William “Corky” Sheeler
The IntoECO program aims to bring Seniors and Sprouts’ mission to companies and public spaces by “working with businesses to help them go greener and show the neighborhood that they want to be greener,” Sheeler said. He has worked with local companies including A.D. Moyer Lumber and Cedarville Engineering Group LLC (CEG) to clean up the land around billboards, plant native flowers and design rain gardens, which utilize rain runoff from buildings and gutters to more efficiently spread water through the soil. Through these key programs, Sheeler seeks to benefit the community and showcase the mutual benefits that are possible when people — seniors and children, companies and communities — connect with each other and the planet. “We can build and we can eat if we just work together a little bit at a time,” Sheeler said.
We, at Seniors and Sprouts, are starting to make a difference and would like to expand our impact. Working as a nonprofit under the fiscal sponsorship of Humanitarian Social Innovations, (http://www.hsifiscalsponsor.org/) , we have started and are adding new projects to our portfolio on a regular basis.
With this in mind, we are asking for your support at this time. We have plenty to do, lots to organize, and so many opportunities to contact future participants in our programs.
It is true that some seniors need to learn how to let the children lead them, but the children also need some life based wisdom to grow.
Thank you, please share this email, and call with questions … I believe in talking, not texting!
DONATE HERE!