Michael Bennett’s offseason of community involvement continued Thursday with the announcement that foundation is partnering to build the Bennett Foundation Garden located within the King County Juvenile Detention facility.
As described by kcyouthjustice.com “the garden seeks to provide students with an opportunity to learn about growing food, healthy eating, and biology through hands-on gardening and art experiences.”
Bennett’s Foundation provided a $5,000 grant for the garden to be built by Interagency Academy students at the KCJD’s Opportunity Skyway site in Georgetown.
Healthy eating and childhood obesity have been at the heart of many of Bennett’s community activities with Bennett once saying “I think it’s because obesity leads to a lot of different things — cancer, diabetes, so many different things can happen to you because of it and I just wanted to attack something that not a lot of people attack.