Urban farming to improve nutrition, sense of community for Nanaimo seniors
NANAIMO — Bettering the health of local seniors is the major goal of a new community project at a south Nanaimo farm.
The Nanaimo Men’s Centre and the Growing Opportunities Farm Community Co-op are working together to help seniors experience the great outdoors at Five Acre Farm, across from Park Avenue Elementary.
“We all do better when we get outside and get some fresh air and our hands dirty,” Carmen Barclay with the Men’s Centre told NanaimoNewsNOW.
Through the next year, anyone 55 years or older can help with ongoing projects such as prepping the land in the spring, recording all the plants in the summer and harvesting the crops in the fall.