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<br />Page 8 of 22 <br /> <br /> <br />Green Community <br />Action Item GC 3.1.1: This project would be a collaboration with a local <br />farm that prioritizes carbon sequestration, crop rotation, organic <br />fertilizers, and cover crops. <br />Action Item GC 4.1.1: The Jubilee Healing Farm Food Forest would <br />provide another source of locally produced food for PORCH. <br />Action Item GC 4.1.2: Jubilee Healing Farm hosts market garden <br />volunteer hours weekly for the community. <br />Action Item GC 4.1.3: Jubilee Healing Farm market garden and future <br />food forest are both edible and would contribute to Orange County’s <br />network of edible gardens. <br />Action Item GC.5.1.1: Jubilee’s sustainable farming practices would be <br />promoted through this grant. <br />Action Item GC 6.1.1: Jubilee Healing Farm is a site for community <br />workshops on native plants and pollinators. <br /> <br />Resilient Community <br />Strategy CR 5.4: Jubilee Healing Farm is Black-owned, and woman led. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Criterion 1 - Social Justice and Racial Equity <br />This criterion has a maximum score of 6 pts (out of a total of 26 pts). <br /> <br />6. Who will directly or indirectly benefit from your <br />project? Please be as specific as possible on the <br />characteristics of those who will benefit including, <br />gender, race, age, income level and geographic <br />location. <br /> <br />Also, what are the demographics of the area where <br />your project takes place? <br /> <br />Does your project help to address any racial <br />disparities in the location it is proposed for? <br /> <br />Please list any data sources used and show the <br />steps of any calculations. <br />Jubilee Healing Farm is in rural Orange County and <br />serves people from Orange, Durham, Chatham, <br />Alamance, and Wake counties. <br />The volunteers at Jubilee Healing farm represent a <br />wide variety of races, income levels, and <br />sexualities/genders, but we are focused on working <br />with Black and Brown young adults. The volunteers <br />who participate in the construction of the Cob <br />Classroom and Food Forest will benefit by learning <br />sustainable building skills, how to plant and harvest <br />food, and why each is important as climate change <br />threatens our current way of life. <br />Once construction is complete, this site will serve to <br />educate a vast array of community members as well <br />as participants in our POEM (Peer Outdoor Education <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 61C3903E-05FE-49FE-A6AF-E50B7D61917E