Community Garden

Community Garden

Community Garden

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.

Community Garden

Community Garden

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

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.

Maintains a native plants garden near the farmhouse.

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 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.

Works to engage the community for the success of its students and neighbors. Organizes and promotes community program such as the Music for Lunch series, Second Saturday Night Live Concerts, block parties and park parties, Grow Meadville, Pop-Up shops, Thankful Thursdays, Meadville Calendar.com, and Community Coordinator position.

Community garden that provides fresh produce and garden plots to community members

Offers comprehensive horticultural training to become knowledgeable gardeners.

Offers two garden lots available for residents and/or others interested in a gardening plot.

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.

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 educational information, literature on gardening and related topics, and master gardener program.

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.

International Refugee Community Garden

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.

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.

Plants, oversees, and harvests organically grown vegetables that are given to our food center families and used in preparation of some of the meals for our Westside Brunch.

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.