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Summertime with Sustaining Way – Summer 2025 Newsletter

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Summer 2025 Newsletter Making Moves: Backyard Garden program expands In a monumental step towards replicating Sustaining Way’s programs in additional communities across the state of South Carolina, we are proud to announce the installation of the first Backyard Garden in Spartanburg! The Backyard Garden Program helps people grow fresh food at home, learn sustainable gardening […]

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Program Expansion: Healthy Lifestyles & Healthy Foods

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Program Expansion: Healthy Lifestyles & Healthy Foods Written & Edited by Jenna Seigworth and Michael Brown As part of Sustaining Way’s “5 In 5” Strategic Plan, our organization launched a biweekly food distribution program in the Southside of Spartanburg to address the persistent food insecurity that has historically impacted the community. The Southside has long endured the harsh

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6 Areas of Sustainability & Sustainable Development Goals

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6 Areas of Sustainability & Sustainable Development Goals Written & Edited By Jenna Seigworth & Abbi Burgess At Sustaining Way, we are committed to creating and maintaining programs that enhance systems change. That’s why we correlate our six areas of sustainability with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 current SDGs were

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Thrifted with Love: Your Essential Secondhand Christmas Shopping Guide

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Thrifted with Love: Your Essential Secondhand Christmas Shopping Guide By Kennedy Davis and Ashley Ramos We want to show gratitude this holiday season, so we’ve compiled some of our favorite places in the Upstate to shop secondhand! Buying secondhand clothing can reduce your carbon footprint by 82%. And in the U.S., around 85% of all textiles thrown

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Creating Resilient Communities After Hurricane Helene with Sustaining Way

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Creating Resilient Communities After Hurricane Helene with Sustaining Way By Jenna Seigworth As the immediate threat of Hurricane Helene has subsided, many of us in the Upstate are taking a collective sigh of relief. At Sustaining Way, a nonprofit organization in the Nicholtown community, our focus has shifted from immediate relief efforts like pop-up food

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Honoring Indigenous Land and Legacy at Sustaining Way

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Honoring Indigenous Land and Legacy at Sustaining Way By Fiona Lavin Steck Sustaining Way’s Land Usage Statement: Sustaining Way acknowledges that the land we steward at Annie’s House, along with the areas we serve in Nicholtown, New Washington Heights, and Spartanburg, rests on the ancestral homelands of the Cherokee and Catawba people. These people used

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