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Amber Potter

Amber Potter

Founder and Executive Director of Bloom Skills Centre in Kingston, Ontario

Jul 15, 2026

9:34
Why did your organization wanna get involved with this program?
9:37
So I think for us, obviously food insecurity is a big issue, you know, nationally, even globally right now.
9:46
But when you look at the people most affected by food insecurity, it's the people that often are on the lower income end of the spectrum, often on social supports and things like that.
9:58
So our population of people living with disability, whether it's intellectual and developmental or physical or whatever application, if there are people that are living on ODSP or any s- other social supports, the funding is below the poverty level, right? The reality of that is, is that it makes it really difficult.
10:19
And so for us, the gardening portion has always been about the education.
10:24
And so in addition to getting to learn about gardening and things like that, we also develop transferable skills for our students that help them in their everyday life, so following lists, executive functioning, those types of things.
10:38
They get to learn while doing something fun like gardening, which is really great.
12:08
How does the pantry integrate with that, or what does it look like?

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