The Genesis Garden has impacted our patients and families by providing them fresh fruits and vegetables, and they're able to take those home with them when they're discharged.
This helps relieve the stress and pressure of having to stop and get something on the way home or that I need to feed my kids. What am I gonna do? Last year, we raised, just over nine hundred and fifty pounds of food that we donated to our patients or those in the community that have food insecurity.
I think the Genesis Garden itself gives back.
And by giving to it, you're able to give back. We're able to give stress relief to the employees that come out here to sit and have lunch on a sunny day, or my favorite stress relief is to pull weeds, so that gives me that.
It brings me joy in, again, seeing those fruits and vegetables grow.
Nutrition is health, and at Baptist Health, we're about impacting our community in healthy ways, and this is one of our healthy ways that we can do it. I feel excited because we are a community. This is a family. It's not just a hospital. And once you walk in our doors, you're part of our family. So we're sending you away with things that I would give my family for my own garden.
The generous donors of our foundation have totally revamped this entire area. We had to redo it. It was flooding. And so we needed to take it apart and build it from the ground up, and it's better than it was. We have more growing space. We have pollinators, so our birds and the bees and the butterflies can do their jobs, and it just brings a lot of beauty and joy to those that come here. And it's just so much in such a little space, and you never know what you can do with just a little bit to make somebody else's life so much better.
