Grapes are joining the community orchard!

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. The morning of Monday, April 22, marked the beginning on 2024's Earth Day, a worldwide event dedicated to mindfulness and preservation of our planet. That morning, city workers, volunteers and a representative from the Florida Department of Health of Jefferson County (DOH) were hard at work, beginning preparations to plant grapes in the up-and-coming community orchard located on York Street. The community orchard is a project that has been in the works for over a year, since its beginning in January 2023. It is the cooperative effort of the city of Monticello and the DOH, with assistance from Florida-Georgia Citrus. Since the project's beginning, ci