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Gardening and Agricultural Services

Agency: Community Crops

3-24-2020 COVID-19 Update:
Community Action Head Start Centers will continue to be closed through April 3rd. Effective March 13th, Community Action's Gathering Place will temporarily alter its meal service model to most effectively keep everyone safe and healthy. While we will continue our meal service from 5:00-6:0...
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 Garden

Agency: YMCA of Greater Des Moines

04/01/2020 - COVID-19 Changes:
All 6 YMCA membership facilities along with Y Camp in Boone are closed until April 13, or until further notice. When we reopen, we will communicate changes to the Y activity (hours, program, classes, etc) on our website of dmymca.org. Before and After School programs operated by the Wa...
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 available at Lowe Park. 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

WAUKEE AREA CHRISTIAN SERVICES has 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.
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).
Home Gardening Assistance/Supplies

Agency: West Des Moines Human Services

WEST DES MOINES HUMAN SERVICES offers the Garden Program for West Des Moines residents only. Must apply in April for limited value garden voucher.
Hortline

Agency: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Hortline provides assistance to home gardeners on lawn, garden, and ornamental questions. Questions can be e-mailed to hortline@iastate.edu.
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
Community Environment

Agency: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Extension

Information about pests, food production (including gardening), turf and landscape, and water quality.
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.
Home Gardening/Supplies - Polk Co. (DM)

Agency: IMPACT Community Action Partnership

04/06/2020-COVID-19 Changes:
IMPACT Community Action Partnership Office Hours
All IMPACT offices are currently closed to walk-in services. We are requiring that all families call their local IMPACT Resource Center before going to an office. All IMPACT services, including our food pantries, will be implemented ...

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Agency: Community Crops

Agency: Eat Greater Des Moines

Agency: Broadway Presbyterian Church

Agency: YMCA of Greater Des Moines

Agency: City Sprouts

Agency: Olivet Neighborhood Mission

Agency: New Hope Community

Agency: Marion Parks and Recreation

Agency: Santa's Children Christmas Village

Agency: Waukee Area Christian Services

Agency: City of Eldora

Agency: Fellowship Cup, The

Agency: West Des Moines Human Services

Agency: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Agency: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

Agency: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Extension

Agency: Latino Center of the Midlands

Agency: South Central Iowa Community Action Agency

Agency: University of Illinois Extension

Agency: IMPACT Community Action Partnership

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