What do you do after you’ve Wikipedia’d and You-Tubed how to sail, buy a boat, travel the Pacific ocean, and come back home? Well, you start a non-profit of course!
This week we were honored to have the founder of Green Urban Lunch Box, Shawn Peterson, join us. No, he is not related to Farmer Luke Petersen. Shawn sat down with us to talk about the journey that lead up to the creation of GULB. Once we got there, he told us about the amazing programs that are being offered through the Green Urban Lunch Box. Apprenticeships, senior gardening programs, garden and fruit share’s, and the local businesses that they have partnered with to make sure that a “community growing for community” is happening here in the Wasatch Front!
Some of their partnerships include Waterpocket Distillery, Mountain West Cider, the Pago group, and The Rose Establishment. We guarantee that this list will continue to grow! Each fall you can taste a cider that MWC makes from apples from all around the valley! It is truly unique to Utah!
You may also know the Green Urban Lunch Box for the school bus greenhouse that they drive around Salt Lake City on occasion. Shawn gave us the story behind finding that bus and how it has evolved over the past few years. He also shared with us how they help seniors farm their own land. Green Urban Lunchbox also has property that they are cultivating in South Salt Lake.
Shawn has an amazing heart, a problem solving mind, he wants to give the community real food that helps them connect, and most importantly he wants to make sure that he gives seniors street cred.
If you are interested in volunteering some of your time or participating in the fruit or garden share program, sign up for their newsletters and visit them at their website GULB. Also if you want to just make a financial contribution you can do that on their website.
You can find them on Instagram and on Facebook!
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