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CAN (BC): Connaught Youth Center to build year-round garden with Co-op grant

Year-round locally grown fresh vegetables are coming to some of Prince George's most vulnerable youth and families.

Thanks to $58,000 from Four Rivers Co-op, the Connaught Youth Centre will begin work on a hydroponic grow shed for lettuces and herbs.

"We serve the highest risk community members within Prince George," Katharine Kendall, Connaught Youth Centre Society's Executive Director told My PG Now after the cheque presentation. "There is no food production year-round. We will be able to have fresh lettuce at Christmas, we will be able to get that out in the community and make amazing food for the kids we serve."

All of the Youth Centre's programs are free. The Connaught Youth Centre was one of 14 chosen recipients of this year's Co-op Community Spaces Program grants.