Katie’s Krops will be offering a grant to a someone to start a vegetable garden in their community to help feed people in need in other states. If you are between the ages 9 and 16 and would like to apply for the grant please e-mail Katie at LaunchKatiesDream@gmail.com and provide your name, age, address and e-mail address. When the grant applications are available we will forward it on to you.
Thank you.
Katie needs your help to make her dream a reality. Katie is hosting two events in July:
On Thursday, July 15th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Katie will be at Aura Lee’s located at 140-C West Richardson Ave. in Historic Downtown Summerville. She is asking for your help in restocking the shelves at Tri County Family Ministries by dropping off donations of canned vegetables, canned meat and peanut butter. Canned goods with pop-tops are preferred so homeless guests of Tri County are able to open them. Everyone who drops off a donation will be given a gift certificate for a percentage off their purchase at Aura Lee’s.
On Saturday, July 17th Katie is asking for your help by bringing vegetables from your home, friends and/or neighbors gardens to Children’s Orchards located at 1580 Old Trolley Rd. to donate to Tri County Family Ministries & The Palmetto House. A few tomatoes, a zucchini, a pepper or two, any vegetable will greatly help people in our community who are struggling to eat. If you don’t have a garden you can still help. Donations of canned vegetables, pork & beans and peanut butter are welcomed. Katie will be at the store from 10:30 to 1:00 p.m. but donations will be welcome all day long. In addition to other store promotions taking place that day Children’s Orchard will provide shoppers that donate food with a 10% off coupon.
Please stop by on Thursday, July 15th or Saturday, July 17th with your donations and help people in the Low Country have a healthy meal. Together we can have a huge impact on helping those in need in our community.
FOOD DRIVE UPDATE!
Day one of the food drive was GREAT! Thank you Ms. Aura Lee, Mr. Bill, Ms. Christine & all of the wonderful people who donated 231 pounds of food! I hope to meet even more great people on Saturday at Children’s Orchard and collect even more canned goods, fresh vegetables and boxed food. Thank you for helping to feed the Lowcountry & thank you to my friends Arrington and Lydia for all of their help last night!
The total is in! With the help of the wonderful people of the Lowcountry Katie’s Krops Collected 535 pounds of food! Thank you everyone!!!!!
What a great day! We picked 282 pounds of pears to donate to the soup kitchens from the garden! Thanks to my friends for helping me. I know it was hot and sticky but I couldn’t have done it without you! Everything is always better with friends and I have some of the best!
I want to thank everyone out there for voting for me! I really appreciate everyone’s votes and support! Every vote helps me reach closer to my goal of two new vegetable gardens to feed people in need! I couldn’t do Katie’s Krops without everyone’s support! Thank you for voting daily for me! 
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I don’t know what I used to think homelessness looked like but I know what I didn’t think it looked like. I didn’t think that homelessness looked like families just like mine but it does. I know homeless people. They are my friends and my supporters. I don’t think any of these people thought they would be homeless but so often bad things happen to good people. I have met children and their families that don’t have a place to call home. It is such a blessing that there are places like the Palmetto House where they can go, eat and live until their situation changes. Next time you see a homeless shelter, think of the people, the families just like yours. If you have any old toys, clothes, shoes, soaps and of course food and vegetables please donate them to your local shelter and you can help people, people just like you and me.
The face of Homelessness
I don’t know what I used to think homelessness looked like but I know what I didn’t think it looked like. I didn’t think that homelessness looked like families just like mine but it does. I know homeless people. They are my friends and my supporters. I don’t think any of these people thought they would be homeless but so often bad things happen to good people. I have met children and their families that don’t have a place to call home. It is such a blessing that there are places like the Palmetto House where they can go, eat and live until their situation changes. Next time you see a homeless shelter, think of the people, the families just like yours that are living there. If you have any old toys, clothes, shoes, soaps and of course food and vegetables please donate them to your local shelter and you can help people, people just like you and me.
Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the Farm Rich Kids Who Give Contest. The announcment will be made by Farm Rich on August 27th if I have been selected to win a $1,000 grant to start two new vegetable gardens. I want you to know I already feel like a winner because of all of your support and kind words.
Thank you!!!!
The vegetable garden at the Palmetto House is in desperate need of a fence. Can you help? If you have a fence company and can help us with a fence that will keep the wildlife away from the vegetables please contact us at LaunchKatiesDream@gmail.com or call 843-327-3366.
The garden at the Palmetto House (the Summerville Homeless Shelter/Soup Kitchen) feeds the residents and guests of the Palmetto House. Thank you!!!!!!
Join Katie at Flowertown Garden Center on
Saturday, July 10th
from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
to design and paint your own flower pot with a local art teacher.
Receive a vegetable plant for your pot & then donate the harvest from your plant to your local soup kitchen.
The cost for this event is $10 for 1 person, 2 people $18 or 3 people for $24
To register for this fun event please contact Charlene Sharkey at Flowertown Garden Center
410 East 5th North Street
Summerville, South Carolina
843-725-9383
A lot of times, you don’t realize what you’ve done or what a difference you’ve made until someone tells you. On Thursday (June 10) I had the privilege of going to Washington DC to be honored by the Sodexo Foundation and receive the STOP Hunger Grant/Scholarship. The trip introduced me to so many amazing people. I met employees from Sodexo and four other scholarship recipients, who just like me, have a goal to end hunger. While there, Sodexo made two generous donations, one for Katie’s Krops and another for my education. I also fit in some sight-seeing, going to the Washington, Lincoln, and World War II memorials as well as a quick trip to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. While I was in D. C I thought of some new fresh ideas and now I’m ready to start taking words into action and start on new projects. I look forward to working with my new friends and try new strategies to fight hunger. Thank you Sodexo it is a huge honor to be selected as a Sodexo Scholar and I promise I will make you proud!!!!
