Leaders in a Healthy Food Environment (LIHFE)

At A Glance

Location: 

Montpelier, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food

Active since:

2017

Core volunteers:

6

Community Size:

8,600

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to erect a green house raised beds and open garden plots toassist nursing home that do not have access to fresh produce on a daily basis with respect to, lack of financial resourses or run by corporate that may not encourage consumption of fresh local grown produce. Our goal is to not only start the greenhouse project but harvest produce with residents of the home. Provide staffing with education in healthy food choices and hopefully produce enough fresh produce to set up a "farmers Market" to sell product to the general public and staff members to continue to self fund the project in the coming years.