Global Revive News Today

Inconspicuously situated on a once-vacant lot in a sleepy Waco neighborhood on the 1100 block of Taylor Street is an array of crop beds growing vegetables such as onions, cabbage, peas and sorghum. The property is the site of Global Revive — a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 to “revive our world back to nature” by encouraging people to grow their own food.

The SCRAP Collective, a group of climate-smart organizations, is implementing grant-funded projects in Waco aimed toward public food production, education and composting as a means to reduce food waste.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research will receive up to $65 million to expand climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices.

The grant is part of a federal investment in 70 partnerships recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.