In February Farmscape worked with IKAR  and the Westside Jewish Community Center to install a community garden to help grow food for the community and for donation. This month, the garden was recognized by the “USDA Garden Initiative Program."

As part of her “Let’s Move” campaign, First Lady Michelle Obama has set a goal of 10,000 new food-related projects nationwide, and the IKAR garden will be counted towards that total. The USDA’s website has a map of the different projects that have been registered throughout the United States. The IKAR garden isn’t on their map yet, but it should be up added soon.

You can read more about USDA’s garden initiative program here.