OUR PROGRAMS

In order to thoroughly address the specific needs of each garden site, we create a customized calendar of 26-30 Maintenance visits and Community Garden Workshops at each site. This approach maximizes chances of success at growing food and supports resident engagement. We provide all workshop equipment, materials and plants.

Maintenance Visits / Micro-Workshops

Our weekly and/or bi-monthly garden Maintenance visits allow us to support gardens and residents in thriving. We water, plant, troubleshoot pest & harvest.

Garden Team visits are 45-90 minutes, and include tending to these tasks and teaching residents to do the same: watering, planting, pest troubleshooting, quick harvesting, and an assessment of any irrigation and maintenance needs. Residents are invited to participate in these light planting, seed and seedling selections, harvesting and watering activities

26 yearly micro-workshops/maintenance visits are needed to sustain life and succession planting. They are pre-scheduled for residents to easily participate, besides food growing, and are meant to educate through science-based gardening knowledge.

Community Garden Events

Residents can learn to build the wicking beds, incorporate soils & compost, transplant seedlings, plant from seed and seedling, identify the plants, harvest, hand water techniques, and watch “Garden-to-Plate” meal preparation video prepared and shared online.

2-hour workshop with 2 GHG Engagement Specialists and occasional GHG volunteer(s). Free organic produce giveaway, sourced by our team. They are Pre-scheduled and open to residents, their friends, and families. Participants learn techniques to harvest different crops, their nutritional benefits, edible parts of the plants, how to use a spinner, kid-safe knife and prepare each vegetable, share the preparation of garden-fresh dishes, seed saving, pollinators. Participants also learn to plant seeds, seedlings, transplant, and to water effectively.

Garden Build & Launch

After a walk-through and a listening to the needs of each specific resident community, we explore the proposed garden spaces, assess water access limitations, sunlight capacity through the seasons, drainage and current resident space uses.

We submit a proposal, make adjustments if needed and create a budget and timeline for the build and the launch of this community food growing space.