Success Stories
1980-2006
Operation Green Plant
Operation Green Plant receives donations of surplus seeds from seed companies and distributes them free to more than 20,000 community action committees, hunger relief projects, community gardens and environmental projects. The program has become an avenue for low-income individuals and communities to provide food for themselves, instill community pride and rehabilitate and beautify otherwise derelict property. It also encourages people to practice ecologically sound habits and give back to the Earth what it has lost over the years through environmental abuse.
From 1980-2006, the Operation Green Plant program has saved more than 800 tons of seed and 7 million flower bulbs from going to waste in landfills, distributed and planted enough vegetable seeds to grow 1.75 billion pounds of food for the hungry and planted 650,000 pounds of flower seeds beautifying roadways, parks and neighborhoods across America.