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Causes: Botanical, Horticultural & Landscape Services, Environment
Mission: To provide garden space for limited income families to grow their own food.
Programs: Plant-a-lot community gardens - provides access to gardening space, tools, educational resources and classes for people to grow food.
kids gardening program - we work with area schools and youth organizations to provide supervised educational activities emphasizing self-esteem, nutrition, and healthy living.
taste of summer food preservation program (formerly the cannery) - provides food preservation supplies, equipment, educational materials and classes for home preservation of fresh produce.
one vegetable one community - food literacy initiative that raises awareness of fresh, healthy food access through gardening and cooking outreach activities focused around celebrating the vegetable of the year.
produce for the people - facilitates increase of fresh, healthy food in local soup kitchens and food shelves by collecting donations of surplus produce from local gardeners and market growers.