A team of employees at a Richmond-based multinational medical imaging firm has grown more than 300 pounds of vegetables for the Richmond Food Bank this summer.
McKesson Canada computer technician Jason Kenyon said his Plots to Plates program that he started at nearby King George Park three years ago has expanded to his company’s front door, with the help of his company’s property manager Bentall Kennedy and a $5,000 McKesson grant.
He and his team now till organic soil in four, raised garden beds.
“Having organic produce is not something they always have,” said Kenyon.
His endeavour made a headline recently in the Vancouver Sun. Since then, he’s been contacted by people wanting to help, including MP Joe Peschisolido.
“He set up a one-on-one meeting to see how he can support us. That was pretty cool. I didn’t expect anything like that,” said Kenyon, who describes the garden project as very casual, and amongst co-workers.
“None of us really have a green thumb. I guess I got my start in both my grandparents’ gardens as a kid. That’s where the seed was planted, so to speak . . . I was looking around Vancouver and seeing all these community gardens popping up. I thought that was something we could do,” said Kenyon.
“Things have gone really well,” he said.
