Celebrity Jennie McCarthy helped start a community garden

Good Food Garden at the Arroyo Head Start center

August 2009

In 2009, McCarthy helped Weight Watchers kick off Lose For Good by participating in a ceremony where the company donated a “Good Food Garden” to the Arroyo Head Start center in Altadena, CA, run by the Center for Community and Family Services, Inc. The Arroyo Head Start center serves underprivileged children in the community and until now did not have funding to build a sustainable garden for the kids to use for educational and nutritional purposes.

This community garden, designed and installed by Teich Garden Systems will bring healthy and fresh food to a community in need. Jenny McCarthy and David Kirchhoff broke ground in the garden and actually planted along side the young students.

Jenny McCarthy was inspiring in sharing her own story of growing up with little money and of how she learned to eat healthy food. She shared that she and (then)boyfriend Jim Carrey recently planted their own organic garden.

This Community Garden at the Arroyo Head Start Center will provide healthy organic vegetables and fruits to the students and will also serve as a teaching tool for math, science and health lessons.