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Kipper Tool garden provides fresh fruits, vegetables for employees
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Kipper Tool replaced a piece of turf on its Murphy Boulevard site to an organic garden that saves water. The garden has cut the company’s water usage from 16,000 gallons a week to maybe 1,000 gallons every couple of months in that area of land. The garden also supplies fresh produce to its employees.
About six years ago, a third of an acre adjacent to Kipper Tool in Gainesville was just a piece of turf. But employee Randy Jeffers envisioned something more. “It was called the orchard garden, because there were existing fruit trees there,” he said about the space off Murphy Boulevard.