A community garden that has served Wyoming students for over a decade is being forced to scale back its educational programming due to federal budget cuts affecting food assistance programs.
H.O.P.E Gardens, which stands for ‘Helping Other People Eat’ is a nonprofit organization that operates in the Wyoming neighborhood.
The group will reduce its school visits from eight times per year to just four after losing a significant portion of its funding from SNAP-Ed, a federal program that provides funding for nutrition education.
“We have to actually cut back on the amount of students we see in the amount of times we get to see the students. We were seeing the students eight times a year,” Julie Brunson said…