Hope Blooms and Harvest Vegetables

fresh produce: The kids involved with Hope Blooms plant, tend and harvest vegetables, according to CTV. The fresh produce is then used to make salad dressing and sold for $8 per bottle. Hope Blooms was started eight years ago for a community that had a lot of stigma around it, according to Jessie Jollymore, the organization executive director. Proceeds go toward a scholarship fund for the entrepreneurial gardeners. He plans to study commerce in the fall. Mamadou Wade, one of the gardeners, is the first to head off to university. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.