John Rivers, guest reader for the children.

John Rivers, the founder and CEO of 4-Rivers Restaurant Group, was the guest reader for the children at Welbourne Nursery & Preschool in Winter Park!
Discussing his own community service plans, Mr Rivers said, “we’re going to build something in Orlando that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the country,”
He was talking about the farm, called 4 Roots Campus, a 40-acre working-farm near John Young Parkway and Princeton Street. Mr. Rivers said it will tackle the community’s food insecurity problems. “We’re going after the broken food system and, specifically, you have so many people in Orange County living with food insecurity,” Rivers said. “In Orange County Public Schools today, you have one in every five students that doesn’t know where their next meal is going to come from.”
While on-campus, Welbourne volunteer Miss Jamie Binkley and her team introduced Mr. Rivers to Welbourne Nursery’s Kinder-Gardener program – where its students garden one day each week, planting, attending, harvesting, and then eating fresh vegetables grown in Welbourne’s own garden.
Welbourne Nursery, now serving Winter Park for 93 years, is one of the community’s oldest and most robust not-for-profit organizations!