Organization bringing healthy food options with urban farm - WSET

A local organization is working to bring you more healthy food options.

God's Storehouse is partnering with AmeriCorps Vista to build a greenhouse in Danville.

Volunteers have been working on the soon-to-be urban farm on Memorial Drive.

There will be a variety of crops on the farm from onions and peppers to mushrooms and herbs.

Some will be given out at God's Storehouse's normal food distribution and some will be donated to the farmers market.

Robert Maher with AmeriCorps said the goal is to change the normal food experience for folks in Danville.

"There's epidemic levels of lots of chronic diseases such as obesity and cancer," said Maher. "So this is huge in trying to help people make healthier choices and see what healthy food looks like."

AmeriCorps got a grant from the Dan River Foundation to make this happen.

The greenhouse is expected to be complete by the end of February.

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