Cultivates a community garden. Distributes produce to community members in need. Provides volunteer opportunities.

Provides gardening education, seedlings, and construction support to volunteer-run gardens. Harvests are gathered and distributed to local food cupboards where, along with non-perishable food items, residents who are hungry or food insecure can get the food they need.

Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.

Offers a youth leadership building program focusing on arts, entrepreneurship, Puerto Rican culture, and gardening. Also offers homework help, college prep, work readiness, and outdoor experiences such as photography, gardening, camping, and canoeing.

Offers a youth leadership building program focusing on arts, entrepreneurship, Puerto Rican culture, and gardening. Also offers homework help, college prep, work readiness, and outdoor experiences such as photography, gardening, camping, and canoeing.

Serves the home gardening public by answering questions, speaking to groups, working with 4-H horticultural projects, participating in civic beautification, maintaining demonstration gardens, teaching plant sciences, and horticulture.

Grows fresh fruits and vegetables that are donated to the community, affiliated pantries, and mutual aid networks. Also provides volunteer opportunities. Offers community farming days monthly for volunteers and serves as educational demonstration on farming for community members.

Provides a tool lending library and bulk garden materials depot. Seeks to reduce barriers to growing food by making it easier for gardeners in the region to access the tools and supplies they need to grow successful home and community gardens. For a sliding scale annual membership fee, the GRC allows patrons to access free garden tool rentals and bulk materials such as organic compost, mulch, and soil amendments.

Community Garden

Community Garden

Offers numerous events to build the community and allow neighbors to meet one another such as community gardens, outdoor movie nights and participate in National Night Out which features live music and a large picnic for all neighbors.

Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.

Community Garden

Promotes a healthy neighborhood by providing activities and advocacy that engage adults and children in positive experiences. Children's activities include self-esteem and conflict resolution, art and crafts, environmental education and theme-based activities. Adult activities include cooperation with local agencies, neighborhood assessment, referrals, English as a Second Language (ESL) home tutoring, educational mentoring, computer assistance, beautification programs and collaboration with the Burton Diehl Neighborhood Organization.

Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.

Community Garden

Provides information regarding gardening and environment including composting and soil, flowers, fruits, gardening, indoor plants, lawns and grass, pesticides, trees and shrubs, vegetable and herbs, water and ponds, and wildlife damage management.

Provides volunteer opportunities for members of the community to develop gardening skills and teach children about assisting those in need. Produce is given to the CCDC Food Pantry for local families in need.

Provides organically grown vegetables to families who purchase a season-long foodshare, usually paying in full before May. Households come to the farm weekly for 24 weeks to pick up their share. Some items are U-pick, and most items have been harvested and bunched in to units. Families are expected to contribute at least 4 hours of volunteer labor at some activity to support the farm's operation.

Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.

Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.

Provides the opportunity to plant, grow, and harvest own produce through use of plot in community garden space. Provides education on the value of gardening. Also provides donations of surplus produce to local non-profit food pantries and soup kitchens when possible.

Offers garden plots in the Las Parcelas garden for rent and includes use of water, tools, and kitchens. Also offers workshops to learn about gardening and composting.

Maintains the grounds of a community garden. Pursues the goal of offering a safe and attractive environment to people desiring a place to grow edible produce and/or flowers. Requests that gardeners plant extra and donate produce to local organizations.

Nature center free for an educational experience in nature Their educational lobby offers hands-on activities, a live honeybee observation hive, a store, a critter hunt, and much more.