Katie'S Krops

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“2022 was a year of tremendous growth production in our flagship garden increased by fifty-five percent our volunteer base doubled our outdoor classroom engagement increased by 35 percent. Our young growers across the country had a tremendous impact on hunger and food insecurity in their communities. We worked tirelessly to improve our effort and growth. Collectively our young growers donated 48,456 pounds of produce to help end hunger in their communities in 2022 katie's krops and katie received three notable honors katie's krops favorite nonprofit, katie's krops best local activist group and katie won favorite local hero in the summerville journal scene readers' choice awards. The residents of summerville vote on these awards. It was a truly humbling experience. The stagliano family was honored with the keystone award from dorchester county community outreach - dcco. The award is given in recognition of dedication to dcco and continued support of those experiencing homelessness in our community. It is truly an honor to receive this award as a family. Katie's brother john michael has dedicated the past seven years to furnishing homes for individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness with his nonprofit lowcountry home again. In 2022 we hosted 87 programs in our outdoor classroom, engaging 847 people in fun educational programs in a beautiful outdoor setting. Thirty percent of visitors became garden volunteers. Our most popular program continues to be storytime in the garden with katie. This program is open to visitors of all ages who enjoy stories and receive a tour of the garden where children can snack on the growing fruits and vegetables. In addition, we partnered with several local nonprofits, educational organizations, professionals, and volunteers to bring high- quality educational and enrichment opportunities to the classroom. In 2022 we continued to see a tremendous need for our katie's krops garden to table dinners. Summerville lacks public transportation. Individuals have difficulty procuring transportation to grocery stores and cannot access the free food donations offered by local food pantries and our katie's krops dinners. Our delivery volunteers are lifelines for individuals and families struggling with hunger and food insecurity. In 2022 our deliveries increased, and we are now delivering 240+ meals per dinner. Working with the dorchester county sheriff's department, we reached individuals living in homeless encampments. In 2022 we shared 16,258 healthy free meals and continued our mission to have the meals served and prepared by youth volunteers. Additionally, we provided christmas dinner for the guests of the warming shelter in summerville and started sharing milk with our guests. At thanksgiving, we gave our guests 112 thanksgiving baskets to prepare a meal at home. T is a great honor to announce our 2022 katie's krops volunteer of the year, lily hartline at just six years old, lily logged more volunteer hours in 2022 than any other volunteer. You will find lily at all of our garden workdays. Inspired to do more, lily started her own giving garden at her home, where she shares the harvest to make our free garden-to-table dinners possible. She also makes direct donations to families in our community facing food insecurity. Additionally, lily was one of our youth volunteers who spearheaded the efforts in our flagship garden to save the monarch butterflies. You will also see lily at the katie's krops dinners, where she shares milk with our guests and helps deliver meals with her parents. When lily arrived at a garden workday with everything she had saved in her piggy bank to ensure we could continue our efforts to provide healthy fresh food to individuals and families facing food insecurity, there was not a dry eye to be found. "lily has the biggest heart and the sweetest spirit. I met lily several years ago when she was four years only and came to the garden to help with our mlk day service project”