Green Thumbs Growing Kids

Green Thumbs Growing Kids serves 3,000 children, youth and families every year in hands-on experiential programs in four school food gardens, and also greenhouse, summertime and after-school programs. We have a youth empowerment program and hire students for the summer, resulting in deeper community engagement in the school gardens, which function as a food security measure in the low-income communities where our programs are located. Programs serve a wide diversity of ethnic backgrounds and as such we are always learning more about different plants from all over the world, and various culinary and medicinal uses. Likewise, participants of all ages learn about species native to this part of the world and their role in biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. The science and art of composting for nutrient management is central to our programs.