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Build a small urban food growing garden for residents of an affordable housing property
ORGANIZATION: Growing Hope Gardens
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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DONATE TO THIS
ORGANIZATION
Join us in building a mini urban food farm project that will create 70' x 2' of organic food growing. We are innovating with wicking beds, equipped with critter cages for the residents of this affordable housing property.
Growing Hope Gardens is a social and environmental nonprofit dedicated to the empowerment of people experiencing homelessness and those of small means, by creating regenerative, organic urban gardens in shelters, service centers, bridge housing, affordable housing and on vacant land. The gardens are meant to nourish and empower underserved communities of small means by providing growth for plants and people through a communal connection to healthy food.
In order to thoroughly address the specific needs of each garden site, we then create a customized calendar of Maintenance visits and Garden Workshops. This approach maximizes chances of success at growing food and supports resident engagement. We provide all workshop equipment, materials and plants.
What the food gardens do:
- Increased care for the overall shared environment: inclusive of selected outdoor space and grounds in order to reciprocally begin to run ongoing community workdays:
- Community-building through maximizing adult and youth participation in a holistic approach to healthy living through organic gardening;
- Supporting healthy aging for elderly and disabled residents in being food secure and decreasing isolation through participation in gardening;
- A hands-on educational forum through connecting neighbors of varied backgrounds in an outdoor space facilitating the sharing of varied cultures, plants, and planting practices;
- Increased physical activity through a holistic approach;
- Chronic disease prevention through physical activity promotion, connecting food sources and cultivation processes to organic, sustainable, and seasonally appropriate food choices and sustainability in an urban setting
- Increased science-based knowledge about organic regenerative gardening
5 Shifts
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Wed May 25, 2022
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morning /
09:00 AM to 11:45 AM
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Spots available: 7
Final installation, Wicking bed, critter cages, soils and intital watering. wooden garden beds
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Tue May 24, 2022
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morning /
09:00 AM to 11:45 AM
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Spots available: 7
Wicking bed Installation (4) Liner, edge, lava rock and piping build
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Mon May 23, 2022
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morning /
09:00 AM to 11:45 AM
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Spots available: 7
Site Preparation for food garden (4) Push sandy soils back & create space for receiving wooden garden beds. Build water in/out valve
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Fri May 20, 2022
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morning /
09:00 AM to 11:45 AM
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Spots available: 6
Site Preparation for food garden (4) Push sandy soils back & create space for receiving wooden garden beds. Build water in/out valve
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Thu May 19, 2022
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morning /
09:00 AM to 11:45 AM
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Spots available: 9
Site preparation (6) Pre-installation preparation: push sandy soils back and create space for receiving wooden garden beds
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About Growing Hope Gardens
Location:
2033 Virginia Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404, US
Mission Statement
We create and support onsite, organic, regenerative and food gardens with residents of affordable housing and homeless shelters.
Description
Since 2019, and in partnership with Community Corporation of Santa Monica , Safe Place for Youth, Holos Communities and The People Concern , Growing Hope Gardens successfully opened and expanded 15 urban, organic, regenerative resident food gardens and fruit trees, and a 1/4 acre farm, at distinct affordable housing and homeless shelter properties in Los Angeles County
All of the resident food gardens are supported with our bi-monthly maintenance visits, with the goals of helping the gardens thrive and, increasing onsite resident knowledge and stewardship. This approach maximizes chances of success at growing food and supports resident engagement.
Educational signage informing how harvest, care, nutritional content, and suggested use is placed each season in the gardens. We also support the increase in plant-based knowledge with our online portal.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
815 Ashland AvenueSanta Monica, CA 90405
DATE POSTED
May 11, 2022
SKILLS
- Habitat Restoration
- Environmental Education
- Farming
- Botany
- Gardening
- Horticulture
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- 1 x 3 hour shift minimum
- please wear closed-toe shoes, long pants and work gloves if you have them. Otherwise we can provide