Brighton Business Owner Big Help in Starting Community Garden
The co-owner of Brighton NC Machine facilitated a 10-year lease for the Brighton Community Garden for just a dollar per year.
Jack Clausnitzer, co-owner of Brighton NC Machine, doesn't think he did anything special by arranging a 10-year land lease to build a community garden on the property next to his company. But that 10-year lease costs only $1 per year. And that garden — along with other community gardens in Livingston County — brought in more than 11,000 pounds of food to Gleaners Food Bank to be distributed to families in need. With one pound of food equating one meal, that's more than 11,000 meals to which the Brighton Community Garden contributed. According to the Livingston County Hunger Council, there are 10,000 people in the county who live in poverty, and almost 24,000 people can be described as being “food insecure." "He is very modest, very private…
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Stephenie Koehn
11:51 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Our property is wooded and there is no sunny spot for a garden. I would be more than happy to rent a plot, if this were possible. You are right, Linda, that this could generate more money for Gleaners'. I'd be happy, too, to work off some of my rent by helping plant/maintain the community area of the garden. Wish this story had included Ms. Simmon's first name! more ›