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‘Seeing new life’: Utah nonprofit helps seniors grow backyard gardens — and make friends

Green Urban Lunch Box donates a portion of the produce it helps seniors grow to free farmers markets.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Collette, the Back Farms program director for Green Urban Lunch Box, plants cantaloupe and tomato seedlings in a backyard garden in Murray, June 6, 2023. The nonprofit helps seniors in the Salt Lake Valley grow backyard gardens, and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.