Grow+Garden

At Tata Consultancy Services’ Seven Hills Park in Cincinati, Ohio, employees are volunteering their time, energy, and green fingers to help address food insecurity in the local community.

In Cincinnati, 33% of families experience food insecurity – more than 30% higher than the national average. This was an issue that TCS employees at Seven Hills Park were united in wanting to address – and the seeds of the solution were literally planted in 2018; in the form of a community garden tended to and harvested by TCS employees.

In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating the challenges Cincinnati families faced, the community garden was expanded to 3,500 sq. Ft. - and now produces over 80lbs of fresh produce harvested every week by employees. 

All of the fresh produce is then donated to local non-profits MercyWorks, Health Source Ohio, Clermont County Community Services, and the James Sauls Homeless Shelter, who distribute it to local families in need.

Thomas Osborn, Operations Lead, Cincinnati GDC, said:

"It makes a big difference when you can say that Tata consultancy Services has helped the community by literally growing and giving them food to ear – especially this year.”

The green-fingered volunteers from TCS have no plans to slow down production of fresh produce – and are even planning to move gardening operations under shelter to enable them to keep feeding their hungry neighbors even during the winter months.