LEWISTON – The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation has awarded the Sisters of Charity Health System project, Lots to Gardens, $12,000 for the expansion of youth development and alternative food access projects.

Lots to Gardens provides community members in Lewiston’s downtown resources with which neighbors can work together to create and maintain local landscapes, gardens and community green spaces.

“Our methods are simple: teach people how to grow their own food, provide alternative access to fresh food and involve youth in creating these changes. In doing so we create a more just community food system as well as help families and youth of low income develop skills and build power of lifelong and community-wide change. The funds from the King Foundation will help us achieve this goal,” said Kirsten Walter, Lots to Gardens adviser.

For more information on Lots to Gardens, call 753-6944 or e-mail [email protected].