Livingston Hunger Council Expands Community Garden Network
Livingston County now has 12 community gardens growing and donating food to Gleaners Food Bank.
Livingston Hunger Council Community Garden Director Kay Simmons has had her hands full this year with trying to recruit volunteers and tend multiple gardens during a hot, drought-filled summer. One of the more pleasant parts of her job was adding five new community gardens to the network, rounding out the total number of Livingston Hunger Council community gardens to 12. The new gardens this year include the United Methodist Church Hartland, Fowlerville - to directly benefit the Family Impact Center, The Well Church and First United Methodist Church of Brighton as well as a private residence off McClements Road in Brighton. "It means more produce and enables us to have more distribution out in the community," Simmons said of the additional…
