Windermere agents volunteer at Eugene’s GrassRoots Garden for Community Service Day
Windermere agents spent Community Service Day at GrassRoots Garden, where Food for Lane County says the site grows more than 50,000 pounds of produce a year.
Windermere real estate agents spent their Community Service Day at FOOD for Lane County’s GrassRoots Garden in Eugene, putting company volunteers into a site that plays a direct role in local food production. The garden, tucked behind St. Thomas Episcopal Church at 1465 Coburg Road, is one of the nonprofit’s key growing spaces and a place where hands-on labor translates into food for Lane County families.
FOOD for Lane County says GrassRoots Garden is more than a planting site. It functions as a learning space with an outdoor kitchen, and it brings together people of different ages and backgrounds through gardening, cooking and community-building. The organization says about 2,500 people take part in GrassRoots Garden activities each year, including students, adults, people with special needs, corporate volunteers and faith-based groups.
The scale of the garden matters. FOOD for Lane County says its gardens collectively produce more than 120,000 pounds of produce each year, and GrassRoots Garden alone produces over 50,000 pounds annually. The nonprofit also says more than 2,000 youth visit the site each year to learn about gardening, nutrition and community-building, making the garden both a food source and a training ground for the next generation.
Windermere says Community Service Day is an annual companywide tradition that began in 1984, when agents and staff dedicate a day of work to community-based organizations. The company says its offices across multiple Western states participate, and that the tradition has generated more than one million hours of community service to date. In Eugene, that service day lined up with one of Lane County’s most visible food access operations.
FOOD for Lane County, based in Eugene, says its mission is to reduce hunger by creating access to food. The nonprofit says every contribution helps support children, families and seniors across Lane County, and the GrassRoots Garden effort showed how volunteer labor can feed that mission in a measurable way, row by row and pound by pound.
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