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Gardening and Agricultural Services

Agency: Community Crops

Community Garden Project provides free seeds, plants, tool and land for families to grow their own food.

Mobile Veggie Van provides low income neighborhoods access to affordable local vegetables.

Urban Farmers Project provides land and technical assistance to grow food for market.

Young Urban Farmers Project works w...
Eat Greater Des Moines

Agency: Eat Greater Des Moines

EAT GREATER DES MOINES provides assistance in starting or locating a community garden, finding a food pantry or meal site, finding a farmers market or farm, makes food rescue simple for donors and recipient organizations and works to support the local food system.
Community Gardening

Agency: Broadway Presbyterian Church

Community gardening April -September; assistance in setting up garden lots; materials provided for the first year.
Community Gardens

Agency: City Sprouts

Garden beds available to community members to grow fresh vegetables for their own use. Community members are invited to pick as much produce as they need from the "Free Farm" beds that City Sprouts maintains.
Community Garden

Agency: Olivet Neighborhood Mission

Provides fresh and healthy food pantry options. The gardens are used as a vehicle that teaches children and families to grow their own food and respect our natural environment.
Hopes Garden

Agency: New Hope Community

Provides individual garden plots and communal gardens that teaches gardening techniques, food preservation, food preparation, self-sufficiency, and healthy eating.
Gardening Plots

Agency: Marion Parks and Recreation

Garden plots are offered at Lowe Park, 4500 North 10th Street, Marion. Applicants may call for availability, or to be put on a waiting list.
Children's Services

Agency: Santa's Children Christmas Village

Gifts and visits to children in crisis, with special needs, and with life-threatening illnesses.

Funds other organizations with a similar mission of aiding children.

Toy drives, letters to 'Santa' handling, prepare gifts, donate funds, visit children in hospitals and homes year round.

Annual dinner, raffle, silent a...
Community Gardening

Agency: Waukee Area Christian Services

Offers a community garden that provides fresh produce to patrons of the food pantry.
Eldora Community Garden

Agency: City of Eldora

Eldora Community Garden, with the collaboration of Hardin County ISU Extension and the City of Eldora, has a one-acre community garden with the goal of growing produce for donation to the community via the local food pantry, Pine Lake Food Shelf, and by giving less shelf-stable produce directly to our community garden volunteers. Bookmark This

Gardening Plots

Agency: Fellowship Cup, The

Provides a 4 x 8 garden plot for adoption. Adoption means planting vegetables, weeding, watering, and harvesting. Water and seeds are available for you (Not all seeds are available). Mt Pleasant Community Garden is located at 211 S Jackson Street – across from Sarah’s Bridal.

Common Grounds Community Garden

Agency: The Storehouse

Garden plots for people who would like to own and run and harvest a garden. Runs end of May through end of September.

Garden Program

Agency: West Des Moines Human Services

WEST DES MOINES HUMAN SERVICES offers the Garden Program for income-eligible West Des Moines residents only. Apply in April or May for limited value garden voucher.

Master Gardener Program

Agency: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Use research-based horticulture and gardening knowledge and practices to educate people and coordinate projects that promote healthy communities

Family and Community Well-Being Program

Agency: Latino Center of the Midlands

Community Assistance
-Provides resources for health, financial, and public services in the community
-Assistance with accessing public assistance program and benefits
-Assistance completing forms and making phone calls on an individual’s behalf
-Referrals for basic needs and emergency assistance
-Employment services and con...

Garden Vouchers

Agency: South Central Iowa Community Action Agency

GARDEN SEED AND VOUCHER PROGRAM provides vouchers to purchase plants and/or vegetable and fruit seeds from local participating vendors. Contact your local outreach center for more information.

Extension Education

Agency: University of Illinois Extension

Education programs in the areas of 4-H and positive youth development, horticulture and gardening, agriculture and natural resources, nutrition and wellness, and community and economic development.

Community Environment

Agency: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Extension

Information about pests, food production (including gardening), turf and landscape, and water quality.

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Gardening and Agricultural Services

Agency: Community Crops

Eat Greater Des Moines

Agency: Eat Greater Des Moines

Community Gardening

Agency: Broadway Presbyterian Church

Community Gardens

Agency: City Sprouts

Community Garden

Agency: Olivet Neighborhood Mission

Hopes Garden

Agency: New Hope Community

Gardening Plots

Agency: Marion Parks and Recreation

Children's Services

Agency: Santa's Children Christmas Village

Community Gardening

Agency: Waukee Area Christian Services

Eldora Community Garden

Agency: City of Eldora

Gardening Plots

Agency: Fellowship Cup, The

Common Grounds Community Garden

Agency: The Storehouse

Garden Program

Agency: West Des Moines Human Services

Master Gardener Program

Agency: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Family and Community Well-Being Program

Agency: Latino Center of the Midlands

Garden Vouchers

Agency: South Central Iowa Community Action Agency

Extension Education

Agency: University of Illinois Extension

Community Environment

Agency: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Extension

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