Stratford’s Hartley & Parker Limited, Inc., collaborated with team members from Tito’s Handmade Vodka for a community garden building effort at Reservoir Community Farm in Bridgeport on Oct. 14. United through the Tito’s Block to Block initiative, 40 volunteers from Hartley & Parker and Tito’s took part in the daylong volunteer event. Through Tito’s Block to Block program, Tito’s Handmade Vodka has partnered with nonprofits and volunteers in major cities across the country to create community gardens and farms, making fresh food accessible to urban communities where healthy food is often scarce. Reservoir Community Farm is a Bridgeport-based urban farm that produces thousands of pounds of produce to be grown and sold to the community each year. The farm also works with local youth, hosting educational school field trips and its own Youth Leadership Program.
-
- Hartley & Parker Limited, Inc., collaborated with team members from Tito’s Handmade Vodka for a community garden building effort at Reservoir Community Farm in Bridgeport on Oct. 14.
-
- Through the Tito’s Block to Block initiative, 40 volunteers from Hartley & Parker and Tito’s Handmade Vodka took part in the daylong volunteer event.
-
- All of Hartley & Parker Limited, Inc., except where indicated: David Rosenberg, Vice President; Frank LaTorra, RI & CT State Manager, Tito’s Handmade Vodka; Rachel Landau, Sales Coordinator, Tito’s Handmade Vodka; Victoria Lewis, Northeast Field Sales Manager; and Matthew Malloy, CT Area On-Premise Manager.
-
- Volunteers worked to build a community garden at Reservoir Community Farm in Bridgeport.
-
- Forty volunteers from Hartley & Parker Limited, Inc., and Tito’s Handmade Vodka took part in the volunteer event.
-
- Volunteers installing garden beds at Reservoir Community Farm in Bridgeport.
-
- David Rosenberg, Vice President, Hartley & Parker Limited, Inc., talks with the volunteer team at the start of the event.
-
- Volunteers moving a garden bed.
-
- Volunteers installing garden beds.
-
- All of Tito’s Handmade Vodka: Rachel Landau, Sales Coordinator; Tina Fox, Brand Manager Southern CT; and Rachel Aronson, Brand Manager Northern CT.
-
- Volunteer Mike Gerard, Sales, Hartley & Parker Limited, Inc.
-
- The new community garden beds will be used to grow more fresh produce for people in the city of Bridgeport.
Photos by Andrew Dominick.
