The Flint Hills Regional Leadership Program partnered with the 12th Street Community Center in Junction City to bring a new community garden.

Community center manager Donna Swihart says this isn’t just a “for the moment project; it’s a year long ‘let’s do this together’, ‘let’s build a community’,” type of project.

Swihart says this is an opportunity for kids to learn “leadership, agriculture and cooperation” skills. 

Kaitlin McGuire, part of the 2015-2016 Flint Hills Leadership Program says one of the goals is to “educate and bring the community together.”

“We want people to be able to have fun with [it] and to be able to plant and come in and meet each other and work together to build the community,” says McGuire.

The 12th Street Community Center Garden held a ribbon cutting ceremony this afternoon where they were joined by National Honor Society high school students.

The project was supported by the Junction City Chamber of Commerce.