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Community Gardens
Our hope is to one day organize a community garden in every community in need.
But we'll start small.
We plan to organize our first garden in New Jersey
as soon as Covid allows our freedom, if before the first frost.
We will use this garden as our pilot program. When we've achieved success, and we will, we'll ask anyone from any community from across the country who is interested in organizing a garden,
an opportunity to educate the community on the health benefits of
home-grown fruits, veggies and herbs while accomplishing a sense of community,
we will do all we can to help assist you through the process .. even help fundraise for your effort.
Stay tuned!
We'll let you know when we're ready to roll out on a larger-scale.
Pollinator Garden
Our goal is to create much-needed pollinator gardens.
Bees, birds, butterflies and beetles are among a growing list of pollinator species in jeopardy of global extinction, a trend that could threaten the world's food supply. Pollinators are important contributors to world food production and nutritional security. Wild flowering plants are most at risk; nearly 90% of them depend on animal pollination to some extent. Their decline is primarily due to changes in land use, intensive agricultural practices and pesticide use, alien invasive species, diseases and pests, and climate change. The good news is that a number of steps can be taken to reduce the risks to pollinators; with one of those steps being pollinator gardens.
As you may know, at 389 days of cycling the globe, after pedaling through 27 countries, beginning his journey in South Africa, while literally on his bike in Tajikistan, a country in Central Asia, Jay Austin, a Washington, DC resident, minimalist and environmental advocate, was intentionally and brutally murdered in 2018 in a terrorist attack simply because he was an American. Jay was 29 years old.
Our Foundation's mission, advocating for Jay, to continue his legacy and inspirational spirit, is to promote positive change through awareness for cultural diversity, literacy, nutrition, the sustainability of our environment, minimalism and the great outdoors, with an emphasis on cycling; all Jay's passions.
No donation to fund this project/or these garden projects is too small but every donation will help. As we are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, your donation is tax deductible to the full extent allowable by law.
'I could die doing what I love, but I could also die never having really lived. To me, that would have been a far greater tragedy.' - Jay Austin
Jay truly lived .. up until the very moment he was intentionally brutally murdered in a terrorist attack while cycling the globe.
Jay lost his life simply because he was an American.
May 1st, 1989 - July 29th, 2018