Community Garden in Thomas County Teaches Children to Grow Food — and Brings Lessons Home

Community garden takes root at Campbell River housing complex

A children’s spring break camp theme has grown into a new community garden for residents. Volunteers with the Bahá’í community of Campbell River have run a children’s group at the Gathering Place for several years. While planning this year’s spring break camp, they spoke with a resident at M’akola Housing on Robron Road who is an avid gardener. After this conversation, they decided to build the camp around the theme “Growing Our Virtues,” using …

Butte Community Farm growing strong

BUTTE — In a survey conducted by the Butte Community Farm last year, only 33% of respondents said local food was accessible for them. Thirty-five percent said they knew what crops grow well in the area.

Growing goodness in community gardens

Happily, and in harmony with nature, people all over Winston-Salem and Forsyth County are growing vegetables, fruits, and flowers for themselves and their neighbors.

Learning, Leading and Growing: A Summer of Impact at San Carlos Community Garden

Youth Ambassadors prepare soil for garden plot renovation (Photo by Payton DeGroote/Special to Times of San Diego) This summer, the San Carlos Community Garden brought its mission of “Growing Community” to life through two summer-long programs that engaged young people at different stages of learning: the Youth Ambassador Service program for local high school students and Playtime in the Garden for children ages 3-6.These programs demonstrated t…

Food Policy Council Considers Community Gardens' Future

The city’s Food Policy Council is putting together a working group focused on how best to maintain New Haven’s community gardens — with the potential goal of asking the city to contract with a third-party organization to fill a gap left by Gather New Haven. That early-stage plan stood at the center of the Food Policy Council’s latest monthly meeting last Monday at City Hall. It comes in response to the financially struggling local environmental …

Community garden in Thomas County teaches children to grow food — and brings lessons home

A Thomas County community garden is teaching children to grow food and bringing those lessons home to local families.