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"If you want something done, ask a busy person."
So says Kolade Boboye, manager of social business and innovation at Halifax's Hope Blooms, a not-for-profit that's been around for 15 years.
It started with a single plot of land in the city's North End, where a community dietician envisioned using it to grow food for youth to take home, Boboye tells the National Observer.
Today, Hope Blooms has 126 kids registered for programming and 16 alumni, all currently at university (as far away as California's Stanford University and New York University) and recipients of Hope Blooms scholarships.
It also has a fair-food community farmers' market, mentorship programs, after-school leadership programs, and Green Labs, where kids get hands-on experience with issues around climate change.
Boboye, an immigrant from Nigeria who came to Canada at age 7, says the group is in an era where "I think everyone would agree that the old processes clearly don't work."
Now, with funding from the province of Nova Scotia, Hope Blooms is installing a solar tracker for its operation, which will allow the group to harvest clean power throughout the day.
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