Project Organics

 

 We are now applying to the Walmart Foundation to fund this project. August 9, 2011

 

We are pleased to announce our new Project Organics program. It will help employ many of our Counties’s homeless in the growing organic,local and sustainable food industry.We will also work with local farmers who are already growing organics or who wish to convert their fields.This will help us to sell as many of our products as possible in the local community.The Mission in Citrus is committed to sustainable agriculture and will always do our best to help save the planet.

Program highlights:

Donations will be used for 

  • Hydroponic and aquatic greenhouses enabling multiple harvests each year.
  • Enough produce to feed all of Citrus County.All local and sustainable.
  • Tractors, seeds and other equipment needed.
  • Land leases to grow organic crops each year.
  • Employing the homeless at an honest living wage.
  • Educating the homeless program Directors about organics.
  • Certification of the organic crops.
  • Food and housing for the homeless and so much more.
  • Educational value for our schools.

At harvest time,We will sell all the organic produce to our local restaurants.produce stands,schools,grocery markets,and through brokers.Any produce that is left over will be donated to the local food banks. Citrus County will be the foundation of a program that will work around the Country.One that can end homelessness.

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