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 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 April -September; assistance in setting up garden lots; materials provided for the first year.
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.
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.
Provides individual garden plots and communal gardens that teaches gardening techniques, food preservation, food preparation, self-sufficiency, and healthy eating.
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.
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...
Offers a community garden that provides fresh produce to patrons of the food pantry.
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
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.
Garden plots for people who would like to own and run and harvest a garden. Runs end of May through end of September.
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.
Use research-based horticulture and gardening knowledge and practices to educate people and coordinate projects that promote healthy communities
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 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.
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.
Information about pests, food production (including gardening), turf and landscape, and water quality.
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