The community gardens at Stanton Park are sprouting with the help of some additional green thumbs from UnitedHealthcare employees. A team of 10 employee volunteers from UnitedHealthcare spent the afternoon planting and maintaining the Stanton Community Garden, Volunteers helped disassemble garden beds to be moved to the bigger and more open site at Stanton Park, where the garden was recently relocated to. Together, the team was able to relocate 25 garden beds that will be re-used at the new garden, which is open to any resident of Stanton who is interested in gardening.
Community Gardens enhance the quality of life in Orange County by eliminating and preventing the causes and effects of poverty by mobilizing and directing resources to programs that assist, educate and promote self-sufficiency. Part of that initiative has been to create community gardens in low-income neighborhoods to promote and educate residents about the benefits of healthy living in a fun and rewarding way.