The team at Chanticleer Garden switched gears last year as the pandemic began. Unsure of when they would be able to open, they decided to grow vegetables in many of the gardens. Using them as design elements where flowers would usually go.

Not only were the edibles beautiful, but they were also donated to help the hungry, coming up with nearly 5000 pounds for local pantries and food banks.

Here’s the story.

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It’s more important than ever for gardeners to help the hungry as so many people are out of work.

One way to do that is to also donate your extra seedlings, so that clients of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and other food pantries can give them to people for their own gardens.

Here’s the instructions on how to donate from my friend Lori Diefenbacher at the Food Bank

Here is the best way to donate seedlings : 

• From our webpage:  Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank Website (pittsburghfoodbank.org)
• Click on “Get Help” at the top of our home page
  
• click on “Locator”
   
• Type in address and/or zip code  
• A list of agencies in your designated search radius will appear containing the agency contact information and the dates and times of distributions are also listed
• Individuals can call the agency directly or call me and I can call the agency and find out if they have the capacity to distribute seedlings. 

This direct donation to one of the partner agencies in our network makes the most sense for seedling donations as well as garden donations (Community Harvest). If you know of someone who has a larger number of seedlings, let me know and I can find out through our Network Development team what larger agency would be interested.  

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