LEGACY HERITAGE

The Newtown Redevelopment Community Garden will strengthen availability to the fresh produce for over 1900 low-income households in District 3.

Goal 1: Provide clients with self-sufficiency training and applied living models.
Goal 2: Deliver outreach strategies to new gardeners via the Legacy Heritage website.
Goal 4: Develop supplement home gardens for personal cultivation.

Legacy Heritage Nonprofit (LHN) is adopting The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Strategy Plan YR 2018-2022

Program Measurements and Performance Goals

SMART Objective 1: By the end of season 1 80% of the community garden’s clients will have completed their competencies journal and demonstrated self-sufficiency knowledge measured by case management goals set and goals obtained.

Resulting USDASP Goal Achieved
• STRATEGIC GOAL 1: Ensure USDA Programs Are Delivered Efficiently, Effectively, With Integrity and a Focus on Customer Service

SMART Objective 2: By the end of season 2, increase the number of community members who grow successful personalized medical and therapeutic gardens as measured by baseline registrations card users prior to year 1.

Resulting USDASP Goal Achieved
• STRATEGIC GOAL 4: Facilitate Rural Prosperity and Economic Development

SMART Objective 3: By the end of season 3, 80% of all successful participants in the community garden, will supplement their fresh fruit and vegetable supply by 100%.

Resulting USDASP Goal Achieved
• STRATEGIC GOAL 7: Provide All Americans Access to a Safe, Nutritious, and Secure Food Supply

Plan of Action: Creating the Newtown Redevelopment Community Garden is based on three strategies. They are:
1. Land Development
2. Social Intervention
3. Organizational Change and Development

Legacy Heritage shares the priorities of the UAIP in focusing on individual development. As well as facilitating entrepreneurial projects in our targeted such as horticultural job training, available land, equipment, mentoring, and other business development assistance to new and beginning farmers. Our stakeholders fell the best way to achieve these goals it to keep individual growth at the forefront of the educational and developmental process. All activities are structured to activate interest and introduce a hands-on approach that will accelerate learning. This approach will aid individuals in developing new businesses, jobs, or employment training opportunities with measurable levels of confidence.

Legacy Heritage was founded in 2020 by Consuelo Bradley in Montgomery (Montgomery County) Alabama. For the past 11 years she has been an accomplished African American entrepreneur. The vision of this 501 (c) 3 tax exempt organization emerged during the height of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Mrs. Bradley took the lead in developing green spaces for public gardens and meeting areas to share the therapeutic and medical benefits she derived during quarantine. This led to the mission of Legacy Heritage; To develop a self-sufficient, life empowering, leadership skillset in disadvantaged minority communities located in District 3. Residents of Newtown and other areas of District 3 participated in our food drives. The community garden’s groundbreaking ceremony was covered by The Montgomery Advertiser and attendees expressed enthusiasm about the future garden. Elite Event Planning LLC and Elite Tax Consultant are the Montgomery based corporations that fund a combined 55% of the annual total operating costs of Legacy Heritage. Legacy Heritage, although operating for just one year, has already received support through the Revive Alabama grant program and generous donations from community organizations including the Montgomery Junior League. The garden is now under construction on a 2/3-acre lot undeveloped land. Acme Bricks of Montgomery has donated a supply of bricks and mortar to build our garden beds. Future includes training restaurants and other food related entities how to implement our COVID Careful Campaign into their business models, which includes conversion to outdoor selling options such as food trucks and pull carts. We have already procured land in District 3’s warehouse district.

Since our inaugural event on election day 2021, we have established our food truck lot located on 980 N McDonough in the warehouse area of District 3 with our Downtown Food Truck Expo for which our team was commended by Governor Kay Ivey and Mayor Steven Reed respectively. President and Vice President were also interviewed live on WSFA by Judd Davis. Please view our progress here, https://www.ourlegacyheritage.com/food-program-space.html This space has been prepared for entrepreneurs who are establishing new restaurants through our Rising Restaurant Sponsorship Program. The program offers business resources and support with license sponsorship, land ownership and LLC formation. We are aware that money is not the only barrier to access for budding business entrepreneurs. Due to the unprecedented rainfall, we have had to delay reopening until weather permits.

The redevelopment of our website and the refocusing of our message to represent our mission more cohesively was due to the extensive training by myself and the entire board of Legacy Heritage through IRS direct public charity and private foundation training. Please view our updated website here. www.ourlegacyheritage.com. Our additional investment in an evaluation team for our brand and community positioning has given us the skills to communicate with those who need our help on the level they need us, not where we are prepared to meet them. We have also made some very powerful community connections that pledged continued support for the success of our mission. Please view our community alliances here, https://www.ourlegacyheritage.com/newtown-community-garden.html

Our previous community day event at Trenae’s Boutique, sponsored by Legacy Heritage, Trenae’s Boutique, Elite Event Planning LLC. and District 3 city council candidate Ronald James encouraging the youth vote in District 3 was a great success as many of the candidates for the city council seat in District 3 appeared and spoke to students of the Alabama State University Street Team about the importance of their vote. Our community efforts in this matte were again commended by Governor Kay Ivey and Mayor Steven Reed Respectively. The community day event was also mentioned in an article in the Montgomery Advertiser as a opportunity for residents to meet the candidates prior to the event. Please view our efforts here, https://www.ourlegacyheritage.com/community-food-drive.html .

Last, but certainly not least, Legacy Heritage has recently been officially named a tax-exempt entity by the Internal Revenue Service. This certification entitles us to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers, or gifts under the current tax code. We have worked hard for this exemption and are eager to use it to help participants in our programs succeed. Our determination letter is now available to view upon request.

Our next event is scheduled for Saturday, August 28, 2021, and it brings us back to Trenae’s boutique located at 84