ScottsMiracle-Gro is a founding sponsor of the National Garden in Washington, D.C.. The Company has provided $1 million in financial support and $500,000 in growing media products. Jim Hagedorn, ScottsMiracle-Gro's Chairman and CEO, served as Co-Chair of the Board of The National Fund of the U.S. Botanic Garden, which raised the private funds necessary to create this garden showcase.
ScottsMiracle-Gro and Keep America Beautiful collaborate to create greater awareness of the benefits of community green spaces. Together, the partnership has planted nine community gardens across the U.S. and distributed hundreds of thousands of brochures with tips for homeowners on how to maintain healthy lawns and gardens. Projects ranged from the creation of a children's garden at an urban hospital to the transformation of an abandoned city lot into a community garden.
ScottsMiracle-Gro is a major supporter of the Franklin Park Conservatory's capital campaign to enhance its facilities and build a community gardening center. ScottsMiracle-Gro also partners with the Columbus Foundation in Columbus, Ohio to fund the Scotts Urban Garden Academy, which offers a series of courses designed to provide community gardeners with the skills and resources necessary to maintain a community garden. To date, more than 100 gardens have been developed.
While ScottsMiracle-Gro is headquartered in Marysville, Ohio, we consider the entire central Ohio region our home. We believe that strengthening and revitalizing downtown Columbus is critical to the quality of life of our associates. We have partnered with the City of Columbus, American Electric Power and other key stakeholders to support the development of The Scioto Mile. This integrated system of parks, boulevards, bikeways and pedestrian paths around the Scioto Riverfront will attract and complement downtown residential development, becoming a "green" backbone to provide recreational opportunities for visitors to Central Ohio.
A long-time supporter of The New York Botanical Garden and sponsor of initiatives such as the Bronx Green-Up Project, ScottsMiracle-Gro strengthened its partnership in 2004 by becoming the official sponsor of Home Gardening at The New York Botanical Garden. This initiative offers numerous consumer education programs and helps consumers learn how to follow stewardship principles while growing healthy weed-free lawns and beautiful gardens.
ScottsMiracle-Gro and the Garden Writers Association encourage home gardeners to plant an extra row of produce to share the harvest with local shelters and food pantries. Each year, more than one million pounds of fresh produce help feed the hungry and homeless across America.
