Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey Teams Up with TerraCycle on Journey from Home Grown Produce to Healthy Body Image

Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey and TerraCycle, one of the Country’s most successful and innovative green businesses, are teaming up to offer Connect!, a garden program that will explore the concept of healthy body image and the connection between home grown produce and health. The program will take place on Thursday, September 17 from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm at the Westfield Service Center, 201 Grove Street East, Westfield, NJ 07090 and will be run with the assistance of a certified nutritionist. There is no fee for this program and it is open to all high school age girls.

Connect! is part of Journeys 2, It’s Your Planet – Love It!, a coordinated, focused series of activities grouped around an environmental theme is an integral part of Girl Scouts, USA leadership curriculum designed to encourage girls to experience the three keys to leadership: Discover, Connect, Take Action The Journey 2-based program and is partly funded by a grant from Girl Scouts USA.

TerraCycle is the first company to create every part of their product from trash; they make a liquid plant food, which they produce themselves from worm-composted food waste, and package it in reused soda bottles of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Their plant food is sold at Home Depot and they have expanded their product offering to include cleaners and other eco-conscious consumer goods like tote bags constructed from discarded juice pouches available at Target.