UPPER SANDUSKY —Wyandot County Public Health was joined by several youth and adult volunteers on Saturday, April 25 at the Wyandot County Community Garden in Upper Sandusky for a community service project focused on expanding the community garden to provide four additional raised garden bed spaces for community member use.
The Wyandot County Community Garden now offers 16 spaces for community members to plant a garden. Each season, available garden boxes are provided on a first-come, first-served basis allowing individuals and families to access a space to grow their own garden. Garden boxes are free but a reservation is required.
Wyandot County Public Health also maintains three garden boxes from which produce is donated back to the community through local food pantries and partnerships with organizations that serve the community. Fourth grade students in the county support the garden each year by planting seed starts in their classrooms and at the garden at the start of the growing season.
The $1000 Global Youth Service Day project in Wyandot County was funded by ServeOhio, the Governor-appointed commission on service and volunteerism. Wyandot County Public Health was one of 43 recipients for the Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) grant-funded projects taking place throughout April. GYSD, April 24 – 26, is the largest service event in the world dedicated to the contributions that children and youth make 365 days of the year. The grants ServeOhio provided funded service projects in 28 Ohio cities led by nearly 2,000 volunteers.
ServeOhio awarded more than $39,000 in grants to support these projects including:
- ASPIRE P16 Collaborative DBA Springfield Promise Neighborhood, Springfield
- Avondale Development Corporation, Cincinnati
- Bellefaire JCB, Cleveland
- Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio, Columbus
- Brown Hands Literacy, Cincinnati
- Caterpillars to Butterflies, Dayton
- Christ Tabernacle Ministries of Excellence, Hamilton
- City of Euclid, Euclid
- Columbus Early Learning Centers, Columbus
- Copley Township, Copley
- Daybreak, Inc., Dayton
- East 66th Street Services, Cleveland
- Family & Youth Initiatives, New Carlisle
- Friends of Huron County Park District, Norwalk
- Hudson High School Service Learning Program, Hudson
- Hunger Network, Cleveland
- Kirkmont Center Inc., Zanesfield
- Legacies United Foundation, Columbus
- Little Red Schoolhouse, Willoughby
- Maize Manor United Methodist Church, Columbus
- Mercy Mission House, Sidney
- More Than Food, London
- M-PAC Cleveland, Cleveland
- No Excuses College Tours and Programs, Cincinnati
- People in Need, Inc. of Delaware County Ohio, Delaware
- Preble County Historical Society, Inc, Eaton
- Removing The Stigma, Cleveland
- Rising Appalachia, Millfield
- Rural Action, The Plains
- Scouting America Simon Kenton Council Troop 898, Gahanna
- Serving Area Military and Veterans, Massillon
- Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center d.b.a. The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Cleveland
- The RISE Center, Columbus
- The University of Akron, ZipAssist, Campus Cupboard, Akron
- The Well Community Development Corporation, Akron
- Tinker's Creek Watershed Partners, Twinsburg
- United Way of Greater Stark County, Canton
- United Way of Hardin County, Kenton
- Upper Arlington Lutheran Church--UAQLC Community Garden, Columbus
- Village of Lisbon, Lisbon
- West Park Kamm's Neighborhood Development, Cleveland
- Western Local Schools, Latham
- Wyandot County Public Health, Upper Sandusky
