ECC celebrates second Summer Harvest at Canalside-set Learning Garden (ECC -...
(Source: ECC - Erie Community College) BUFFALO-Last summer, faculty inside Erie Community College's Culinary Arts Department were able to incorporate farm-to-table teaching into their program's...
View Article8/24/2015 Health Education Council awards $12,500 grants to support community...
(Source: Placer County, CA) August 24, 2015 In collaboration with Placer County Health and Human Services, the Health Education Council (HEC) Executive Director Debra Oto-Kent announced today that...
View ArticleGovernor Quinn Announces Investment in East St. Louis Community Garden...
(Source: The Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois) EAST ST. LOUIS - Governor Pat Quinn today announced an investment of $150,000 in the F.R.E.S.H. Community Teaching Garden for the...
View ArticleVCU celebrates Earth Day with open house at Monroe Park Campus Learning...
(Source: Virginia Commonwealth University) Friday, April 15, 2016 The new Monroe Park Campus Learning Garden at Virginia Commonwealth University will host an open house ahead of Earth Day. The open...
View ArticleOlive Garden Teams up with Feeding America® to Feed Families in Need...
ORLANDO, Fla., March 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Olive Garden is strengthening its commitment to helping families in need by partnering with Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief...
View ArticleSyracuse church harvests farms' leftover crops to feed the hungry
BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. -- There's a biblical passage that preaches the importance of a farmer sharing his excess. "Do not reap the very edges of your field," it reads. "Leave them for the poor and for the...
View ArticleChow Line: Working in garden yields multiple benefits (OSU Extension - Ross...
(Source: OSU Extension - Ross County) This year, I greatly enlarged my vegetable garden. I enjoy it, but it's a lot more work than I realized. People tell me that gardening provides a lot of health...
View ArticleThe Best Chile Gardening Guides and Resources for Your Home Garden
The fresher the chili the better tasting your food will be. So why not grow your very own chilies? Wouldn't it be wonderful to just walk out to your garden or balcony and pick a fiery fruit right off...
View ArticleBenefits of DIY gardening in Denver
Some Denver residents hire out their garden work. While this may seem like a time saving proposition, it's also a costly one. Saving money isn't the only benefit to doing your own gardening and...
View ArticleA place to plant and grow: the LUISS Community Garden (Libera Università...
(Source: Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli) All LUISS students are welcome to participate in activities organized in the community garden on the Viale...
View ArticleSummer gifts from the garden
Summer is a busy season for gardeners. Gardens are thriving. Summer birthdays are coming up as quickly as the garden vegetables. Time is not something gardeners have a lot of. Gifts from the garden...
View ArticleThis vegetable garden feeds those in need twice
Ray Peterson has a small vegetable garden behind his Carol Stream home. Behind his church - Our Savior Lutheran Church, 1244 W. Army Trail, Carol Stream - he has a 5,000 square foot vegetable garden....
View ArticleCommunal Thanksgiving meal at community garden
FL_Sarasota - SARASOTA — There was a moment Thursday — after she finally got a chance to sit still and eat — when Barbara Powell took her Thanksgiving dinner party in. Her longtime gardening buddy,...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign launched for the ‘Well House Garden and Murals’ Project...
(Source: MEDC - Michigan Economic Development Corporation) Lansing, Mich.- A Grand Rapids-area nonprofit that provides affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness will receive garden...
View ArticlePrepare to reap the good seeds you have sown
Today’s bible study is Galatians 6:9-10: Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially...
View ArticleCharity begins in the home garden: how to share your harvest
Gardening can be especially rewarding when some of the harvest is given to charity. Contributing just-picked fruits and vegetables not only alleviates hunger but helps develop healthier eating habits....
View ArticleSimple steps for preparing, caring for and harvesting a vegetable garden...
(Source: UCCE Central Sierra) The Good Life Garden an edible garden at the at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science includes vegetables, herbs and flowers. Photo credit: Claire Napawan...
View ArticleFood banks welcome gardeners’ surplus produce
The hot weather is ripening local gardens; soon it’ll be time to figure out what to do with all those extra zucchini. And tomatoes. And potatoes. For the past three years, many gardeners have turned to...
View ArticlePumpkin facts, gardening class and Ohio Design Centre event: Home and Garden...
Miller Orchards is stocked with pumpkins and apples in Brownhelm Township this fall. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer) PUMPKIN FACTS: From the corner supermarket to neighborhood porches, pumpkins are...
View ArticleNeed some healthy meal ideas from the garden? You’re good to GROW! (NYRP -...
(Source: NYRP - New York Restoration Project) Posted by Leah Silver As summer comes to a close, gardens are yielding a bounty-and five New York Restoration Project community gardens near and dear to...
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