What: Groundbreaking on The Beloved Community Urban Farm Shade House. 

Growing Edge Community Collaboration, a 14-agency nonprofit cooperative, will break ground on a shade house to supplement the Beloved Community Urban Farm, the community garden on site at the West Broad Street YMCA. The shade house is just one part of a broader initiative to establish a healthy food resource center on the west side of Savannah by developing the garden at the YMCA for year-round production, expanding the YMCA’s kitchen and creating a job training program for food production and nutrition education training. The nonprofit organization Emergent Structures is leading the design-build effort to construct an on-site shade house using reclaimed materials.Greenline Architecture voluntarily developed the shade house plans and Rives E. Worrell Co./JE Dunn will lead the construction of the shade house, pro bono. The initiative is being funded through a grant by Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. to address areas in the Coastal Empire that lack access to healthy, affordable food.  

When: Wednesday, September 3, 2014

11 a.m.

Where: West Broad Street YMCA Community Garden (rear of main facility) 

1110 May Street

Savannah, Georgia 31415

More Information: Representatives from Rives Worrell Co., Emergent Structures, Gulfstream, and the West Broad Street YMCA will be available for media interviews at the groundbreaking. For more information about the collaboration, please contact ZaDonna Slay, executive director/CEO, West Broad Street YMCA, at 912-233-1951