BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville Wellness Coalition is well-known for its weekly farmers market at Linear Park in Brownsville, but additionally offers alternatives for residents to learn to plant and develop natural produce.
“Brownsville Wellness Coalition is a non-profit that helps well being and wellness applications similar to neighborhood gardens, city farms, and our most well-known program, which is the Brownsville Farmers Market,” mentioned government director, Vero Dimas Rosenbaum.
She mentioned the group has been round since 2008 and they’re nonetheless seeing progress.
“We’ve been planting that seed since then, we’ve now been seeing some stunning harvest from a very long time,” mentioned Dimas Rosenbaum.
She defined that the group has been working with companions together with the town of Brownsville, UT College of Public Well being, United Method, and different native foundations.
Along with these companions, the Housing Authority Metropolis of Brownsville (HACB) is a long-time companion of the Brownsville Wellness Coalition, in response to Dimas Rosenbaum.
She mentioned the HACB collaborated with the coalition on a brand new neighborhood backyard situated on the Poinsettia Backyard Residences.
“They expressed that they needed a neighborhood backyard so we’re working collectively to offer them the schooling, assets, and the steering of the neighborhood backyard,” mentioned Dimas Rosenbaum.
The Brownsville Wellness Coalition has 5 different neighborhood gardens all through the town, every offering alternatives for folks to learn to develop natural produce and different objects.
“We additionally deal with rising vegetation, herbs, greens, fruit bushes, lots of native vegetation additionally that we develop right here within the Rio Grande Valley,” mentioned Brownsville Wellness Coalition’s backyard coordinator, David Andrew Vasquez.
He mentioned educating the neighborhood is his ardour and defined how neighborhood gardens present extra advantages than simply wholesome meals.
“The expansion private clever, health-wise, mentally, bodily, you simply see how folks flip into the enlightenment. It creates a very superior neighborhood,” mentioned Vasquez.
Vasquez defined that he was born and raised in Brownsville and has seen a distinction in his personal neighborhood.
“I’ve seen the transformation of how Brownsville is turning into, extra community-based, extra oriented,” he mentioned.
There are a lot of plans for progress with the Brownsville Wellness Coalition, in response to the manager director and that features an indoor-outdoor farmers market, the Cannery Public Market, scheduled to open subsequent yr.
“The Brownsville Wellness Coalition has a 16-foot trailer referred to as the fresco cell market, which is actually a meals truck that travels all through the town,” mentioned Dimas Rosenbaum.
The cell markets carry merchandise grown at neighborhood gardens and concrete markets and can settle for WIC and Snap vouchers for fee, in response to Dimas Rosenbaum.
She mentioned as a non-profit group, they’re all the time open to volunteers and donations.
For extra info on the Brownsville Wellness Coalition, you possibly can go to their web site.
